In What Way Is Lizzy Newberry A Highly Unusual Woman For Her Time?

Part I of Essay
? Hardy suggests that Lizzy Newberry is a highly unusual young woman for her time in many different ways.Here are lots of examples and extracts proving this point. Right from the beginning of the story, Mr.Stockdale asks the young boy where Mrs Lizzy Newberry lived, the boy ....

Part II of Essay
.... because it would usually have been men that would do all the smuggling. Lizzy realises that Mr.Stockdale is very surprised, and tries to defend herself by saying ‘’Smuggling is carried on here by some of the people,’’ and ‘’It has been their practice for generations, and they think of it as no harm.’’ Then to astonish Mr.Stockdale even more, she begins to show him how to extract the liquor from the barrels, by tapping one of the hoops around the barrel, forward using an awl, then making a small hole in the part that was once covered by ....