Under the Greenwood Tree (Hardy)

For works with similar titles, see Under the Greenwood Tree.
Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
by Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree or The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School published anonymously in 1872. The plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled with a comely new school mistress, Fancy Day. Love triumphs, although she marries with "a secret she would never tell" - namely, that she was also courted by the local vicar, Parson Maybold.

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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE

or

THE MELLSTOCK QUIRE
A RURAL PAINTING OF THE DUTCH SCHOOL

by Thomas Hardy

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