Tess only learns of this upon her return, when she goes to change for photographers only to discover the men and their belongings are all missing.

Tess then learns from her sister, Liza-Lu, that her father, John, is ill and that her mother is dying.

Tess is upset — she wants him to be beside her on her big night, and is embarrassed at the thought that the public will wonder where he is.

Sam says she can tell everyone he had more important plans, and Tess accidentally offends him by asking whether anyone would believe that Sam could find something more important to do.

Trying to prove herself, Tess once again tries to cook breakfast, only to fail because she knows nothing of cooking.

He says to her he does not want Tess Harding or " just little Mrs. Craig ", but can't she be Tess Harding Craig?

That same day, Tess participates in the village May Dance, where she meets Angel Clare, youngest son of Reverend James Clare, who is on a walking tour with his two brothers.

Tess feels so guilty over the horse's death, she agrees, against her better judgement, to visit Mrs. d ' Urberville, a wealthy widow who lives in the nearby town of Trantridge, and " claim kin.

Tess dislikes Alec and repels him verbally but endures his persistent unwanted attention, feeling she has no choice, as she must earn enough to replace her family's only means of support, the dead horse.

This puts Tess in a painful dilemma: Angel obviously thinks her a virgin and, although she does not want to deceive him, she shrinks from confessing lest she lose his love and admiration.

When she hears this story, Tess feels sure that Angel will forgive her own history, and finally tells him about what Alec did to her.

Tess, devastated, accepts the sudden estrangement as something she deserves.

She accepts, but when he asks her how much she loves him, she admits " Nobody could love ' ee more than Tess did!

He tenderly asks her forgiveness, but Tess, in anguish, tells him he has come too late ; thinking he would never return, she yielded at last to Alec d ' Urberville's persuasion and has become his mistress.

He departs, and Tess returns to her bedroom, where she falls to her knees and begins a lamentation.

Angel, totally disheartened, has left Sandbourne ; Tess hurries after him and tells him that she has killed Alec, saying that she hopes she has won his forgiveness by murdering the man who ruined both their lives.

Tess is not a peasant, she is

Another important theme of the novel is the sexual double standard to which Tess falls victim ; despite being, in Hardy's view, a truly good woman, she is despised by society after losing her virginity before marriage.

Later Tess encounters Dunson, who has followed Matt's trail to the new wagon train.

Tess, the daughter of a diplomat ( Minor Watson ), is an internationally inclined political affairs columnist, a polyglot educated in various prestigious European universities who has traveled the world ( based on reporter Dorothy Thompson ).

He finally realizes that Tess really has committed murder and asks the men in a whisper to let her awaken naturally before they arrest her.

From numerous pagan and neo-Biblical references made about her, Tess has been viewed variously as an Earth goddess or as a sacrificial victim.

The main theme, " Fratelli Chase ", has been used in numerous trailers ( such as Innerspace and Guarding Tess ), and was re-recorded by Grusin and the London Symphony Orchestra for the album Cinemagic.

Tess wants to explain her true situation but keeps quiet after learning Jack has been in a relationship with Katharine, which he says is all but over.

For Swann, it is his young daughter, Tess ( Katie McClain ), who has been raised entirely by her mother, one of his many ex-wives.

Ben is renamed Harry, the children's father is deceased, and Tess, a somewhat stuffy psychologist and author, has her father staying with her as he visits in advance of her Saturday wedding to fiancé / literary agent Ryan, played by Mark Harmon.

He has two daughters, Tess and Emily, and two sons, Oscar and Rupert, from his second and third marriages, to Rosalind Tong and Diane Millstead respectively.

* Roswell has an episode titled " Tess, Lies, and Videotape "

Tess befriends the only other children in the village, brother and sister Ben and Carey Naismith, and finds that Ben has strange powers which he draws from the waterfall that gives the village its name.

Sheridan has three daughters, Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Tess Sheridan, with whom he has collaborated, most notably with Naomi and Kirsten on the screenplay for In America.

The 10 songs on In The Clear vary in tempo and mood, and yet the record has a sense of continuity that is never lost-from the slow crescendo of the introductory " Nothing But The Sky " through visceral pop songs like " Thinking About You ", " Tess Don't Tell " ( with James Iha on lead guitar ) and " I've Got You Memorized " to slinkier, subtler tracks like " Four In The Morning ", " Ocean City Girl " and " Keep Moving ".

He has been responsible for performances reading Pat Barker's Regeneration, The Ghost Road and The Eye in the Door, Suspicion by Robert McCrum, Maurice by E. M. Forster, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Sebastian Faulks ' Birdsong and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles.

The couple has two daughters, Kennedie and Tess, and one son, Kade, and currently live just south of Atlanta in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In the season 10 finale, as Tess tries to gain visual of outer space, Watchtower's computer says " Manhunter has put the new space station online per your request ", possibly referring to the future Watchtower that is seen orbiting space just like in the comics.

She then has him interrogate Tess in a mental illusion to try and find the Book of Rao.

Tess of the d ' Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d ' Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d ' Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891.

From April 3 through September 16, 1984, Eden starred in the Lee Guber and Shelly Gross national production of the John Kander and Fred Ebb Tony Award-winning musical comedy Woman Of The Year, playing the role of Tess Harding Craig, alongside Don Chastain ( as Sam Craig ), and Marilyn Cooper ( as Jan Donovan, reprising her Tony Award-winning role on Broadway ).

In Woman of the Year ( 1942 ) Katharine Hepburn played Tess Harding, a character directly based on Dorothy Thompson.

Her first film was in 1982 starring opposite Peter O ' Toole in " My Favorite Year " as Tess, his daughter.

His 1979 film Tess was dedicated " For Sharon ", as Tate had read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles during her final stay with Polanski in London, and had left it for him to read with the comment that it would be a good story for them to film together.

Hardy's writing often illustrates the " ache of modernism ", and this theme is notable in Tess, which, as one critic noted, portrays " the energy of traditional ways and the strength of the forces that are destroying them ".

* The British comedy troupe Monty Python mention Tess of the d ' Urbervilles on their 1973 comedy record album Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief on the track " Novel Writing ", in which Thomas Hardy writes Return of the Native before a live audience.

* Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is referred to in Margaret Atwood's short story " My Last Duchess ", published in Moral Disorder ( 2006 ).

** 1960: ITV, ITV Play of the Week, " Tess ", directed by Michael Currer-Briggs, and starring Geraldine McEwan ( Tess ), Maurice Kaufmann ( Alec ), and Jeremy Brett ( Angel ).

Amos is billed in the credits as " Ellen " but the song is attributed to a band called " Tess Makes Good ", with " additional vocals by Ellen Amos.

* " Change ", a 2008 song by Tess Gaerthé

* In The 4400 episode " Wake Up Call ", Tess Doerner bases her description of the future on the city of the Great Race as described in " The Shadow Out of Time.

In season 3 episode 9, " The Ballad of Kevin and Tess ", of TV show The 4400, Kevin is said to have Werner syndrome to hide his real condition from the public.

In " Metallo ", during an investigation of Kryptonian sightings on Earth following the defeat of Metallo at the hands of Clark, Tess finds Jor-El in the center of a burnt crest of the House of El.

In the Season 8 episode " Injustice ", Tess Mercer tells Clark that the fate of an entire civilization rests on his killing Davis Bloome.

In the season 10 episode, " Abandoned ", Tess Mercer finds a music box at the Luthor Mansion, seemingly left as a gift.

In " Beacon ", the alternate-Lionel makes it appear that he is the Lionel Luthor of that reality, and assumes control over LuthorCorp from Tess Mercer ( Cassidy Freeman ).

In the season 8 Smallville episode " Injustice ", the Rudy Jones version of the character ( played by Brendan Fletcher ) appears with Livewire, Neutron, and Plastique, who form into a team of meteor freak rogues hired by Tess Mercer who search for Davis Bloome aka Doomsday.

Tess appeared in the season's second episode, " New Kid on the Block ", when Balki agrees to babysit her, causing an uproar both at home and at the Chronicle.

Tess, along with her band " The Blackheads ", was a parody of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.