Dr Jane Mackay returns to deliver another of her popular lunchtime lectures on great works of literature. Jane sheds new light on the lives and intentions of the great writers of the world, with insight, wit and warmth.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of Hardy's most famous novels, and the most often dramatised and filmed. Set in the glorious landscape of Wessex (mostly based on Dorset), share a journey with the heroine that Hardy loved best, and whom he called a 'pure woman'. This is the novel that charts best the passing of rural England and the destruction of its beauty and innocence.