Whose first novel was titled 'Desperate Remedies'?
Desperate Remedies happy volumes...the bitterness of that moment was never forgotten, at that moment I wished I was dead." Desperate Remedies Desperate Remedies is the second novel by Thomas Hardy, albeit the first to be published. It was released anonymously by Tinsley Brothers in 1871. In "Desperate Remedies" a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a
Desperate Remedies of "Desperate Remedies" was Hardy's breakthrough, and the first of a long string of novels that propelled him to the forefront of Victorian letters. Some critics cite "quasi-gothic" elements in "Desperate Remedies". It was positively reviewed in the Athenaeum and Morning Post. However, the review in the Spectator excoriated Hardy and his work, calling the book "a desperate remedy for an emaciated purse" and that the unknown author had "prostituted his powers to the purposes of idle prying into the way of wickedness." Hardy wrote of the review, "alas...the Spectator brought down its heaviest leaded pastoral staff on the prematurely