From your reading of Far from the Madding Crowd, what do you find of interest in Hardy’s presentation of women’s experiences in the 19th century?

... From your reading of Far from the Madding Crowd, what do you find of interest in Hardy's presentation of women's experiences in the 19th century? We take for granted that women can choose whether or not to marry, and whether or not to have children, and how many. In the 19th Century woman did not have as many choices as men did in their lives. They usually had low paid jobs and less education. Woman did not have the choice of weather they could have sex or have children this was always the man's decision. If the women had the man's child the husband could have this child taken away and had it raised somewhere else, the woman had to input in this. The woman had fewer rights in marriage then men did and they could be abused on by their husbands. Once married, a woman's property and income would

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