[Information provided by Philip V. Allingham, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario.]
| Instalment | Date | Instalment concludes | Book & Chapters | |
| Instalment 1: There stood her mother, amid the group of children, hanging over the washing tub. | 4 July (Pp. 12-13) | The first instalment ends: "The Compleat Fortune-Teller was an old thick volume, which lay on a table at her elbow, so worn by pocketing that the margins had reached the edge of the type. Tess took it up, and her mother started." (Bottom of column 2, p. 14; volume edition, p. 24) | One, "Education at a Dear School," Chapters 1-3 (pp. 11, 14) | |
| Instalment 2: In stagnant blackness they waited through an interval which seemed endless | 18 July (p. 73) | NB. There was no 11 July instalment. This number ends: "She wished that she had not fallen in so readily . . . and had endeavoured to gain assistance nearer home." (Bottom of column 2, p. 76) | Book One, Chapters 3-6 (pp. 74, 76) | |
| Instalment 3: "I would rather take it, sir, in my own hand." | 25 July (p. 101) | Third number ends: "What's her trump card? Her D'Urberville blood, you mean?" / "No, stupid; her face — as 'twas mine." (Middle of column 2, p. 103; p. 63 in the volume edition, Chapter 7) | Book One, Chapters 6 [Continued]-8 [To be continued] (pp. 102-103) | |
| Instalment 4: Tess stood still, and turned to look behind her | 1 August (p. 133) | The number ends: ". . . stranger things had been known" (top of p. 136, column 1) | Book One, Chapters 9-11 (pp. 133-134, 136). | |
| Instalment 5: Tess in Dairyman Dick's yard | 8 August (p. 133) | The instalment ends: "Their large-veined udders hung ponderous as sandbags, the teats sticking out like the legs of a gipsy's crock; and as each animal lingered for her turn to arrive the milk fell in drops to the ground." (Bottom of third column, Ch. 14, p. 162; Chapter 16 in the volume edition, p. 137) | One, Two ("Book Second, The Rally"), Chapters 12-13; Book the Second, Chapter 14 (pp. 161-162). See p. 137 in volume. | |
| Instalment 6: "I don't know about ghosts," she was saying. | 15 August (p. 189) | The number ends: "A casual encounter during some country ramble it certainly had been, and he was not greatly curious about it. But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to to the other milkmaids when he wished to contemplate contiguous womankind." (Middle of column 2, p. 192; see p. 155 in volume.) | Book Two, Chapters 15-16 (pp. 189-190, 192) | |
| Instalment 7: "What makes you draw off in that way, Tess?" | 22 August (p. 217) | This instalment ends: "The milking progressed. . . by Mrs. Crick, this being the invariable preliminary to each meal; the same horrible scrape accompanying its return journey when the table had been cleared." (half-way down column 1, p. 219; end of Chapter 20 in volume edition, p. 169) | Book Two, Chapters 17-18 (pp. 217-219). | |
| Instalment 8: "This here stooping do fairly make my back open and shut," exclaimed the dairy man. | 29 August (p. 245) | The eighth instalment ends: "And the thorny crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a cursory way to the rest, she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature, cleverer, more beautiful than they, was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the meaner ones whom he ignored." (Column 2, p. 248; Chapter 23, p. 190 in the volume edition) | Book Two, Chapters 19-21 (pp. 245-246, 248). | |
| Instalment 9: He jumped up from his seat, and went quickly towards the desire of his eyes. | 5 September (p. 273) | The ninth instalment ends: "Four months and more of torturing ecstasy in his society — of pleasure girdled about with pain. After the blackness of unutterable night." | Chapters 22-23, end of Book the Second (pp. 273-274). | |
| Instalment 10: "Is she of a family such as you would care to marry into — a lady, in short?" asked his startled mother. | 12 September (p. 301) | The tenth instalment ends: ". . . yet Angel admired it nonetheless. Indeed, despite his own heterodoxy, Angel often felt that he was nearer to his father on the human side than was either of his brethren." (Page 303, bottom of column 1; see bottom of p. 218 in volume, end of Chapter 26). | Book Three, "The Woman Pays," Chapters 24-25 (pp. 301-303). | |
| Instalment 11: Tess flung herself upon the undergrowth of rustling spear-grass as upon a bed | 19 September (p. 330) | The eleventh instalment ends: "'I can't bear to let anybody have him but me! Yet it is a wrong to him, and may kill him when he knows! O my heart —!'" (The volume version, p. 233, concluding Chapter 28, ends: "— O — O — O!'" | Book Three, Chapters 26-27 (pp. 329-33). | |
| Instalment 12: Clare came down from the landing above in his shirt-sleeves, and put his arms across the stair-way. | 26 September (p. 357) | The twelfth instalment ends: "They might be receding, or they might be approaching, one or the other, a little every day. (To be continued)" on p. 359 in Chapter 30 | Book Three, Chapters 28-30 (pp. 357-359; Chapter 30 in the volume ends on page 249). | |
| Instalment 13: "You be going to marry him?" asked Marian | 3 October (p. 389) | The thirteenth instalment ends: "In dressing, she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealisms which eclipsed all commonplaces, all sinister contingencies, by its own iridescence." (Top of column 3, page 391; in volume, middle of Chapter 33, middle of page 275: ". . . by its own brightness." | Book Three, Chapters 31-33 (pp.
389-391). | |
| Instalment 14A: As he passed them he kissed them in succession where they stood, saying "Good-bye" to each as he did so. (p. 421) and Instalment 14B: She slid down upon her knees beside his foot. . . . . "In the name of Heaven, forgive me!" she whispered | 10 October (p. 423) | This double-number ends: ". . .and burst into a flood of self-sympathetic tears." (Bottom of third column, page 423). | Books Three-Four ("The Convert"), Chapters 33-35 (pp. 421-423). | |
| Instalment 15: They reached the cloister-garth, where were the graves of monks. Upon one of these graves he carefully laid her down. | 17 October (p. 449) | The fifteenth instalment ends: "The spurt of mental excitement which had produced the effort was over now." (Bottom of column 3, page 451; middle of Chapter 37 in volume, top of page 323). | Book Four, Chapters 35-37 (pp. 449-451). | |
| Instalment 16: His father and mother were both in the drawing room, but neither of his brothers was now at home. Angel entered, and closed the door quietly behind him. | 24 October (p. 481). | The sixteenth instalment ends: "In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and that the incomplete can be more than the complete. (To be continued)." | Book Four, Chapters 37-39 (pp. 481-483) | |
| Instalment 17: The plantation wherein she had taken shelter. . . . | 31 October (p. 509) | The seventeenth instalment ends: "She was ashamed of herself for her gloom of night, based on nothing more tangible than a sense of condemnation under an arbitrary law of society which had no foundation in nature." | Four, Chapters 40-41 (pp. 509-511; in volume edition, Ch. 41, p. 360). [No 7 November 1891 instalment.] | |
| Instalment 18: The three o'clock sun shone full upon him. . . . | 14 November (p. 573) | The eighteenth instalment ends: "The three o'clock sun shone full upon him, and the strange enervating conviction which had been gaining ground in Tess ever since she had heard his words distinctly, was at last established as a fact indeed. [In volume edition, Chapter 44, p. 392] The preacher was Alec D'Urberville." (Bottom of Column 1, p. 577) | Book Four, Chapters 42-44 (pp. 573-574, 576-577). | |
| Instalment 19: He laid his hand on her shoulder, "Tess, Tess, I was on the way to deliverance till I saw you again," he said. | 21 November (p. 601) | This nineteenth instalment ends: "'That clever fellow little thought that, by telling her those things, he might be paving my way back to her!'" (Top of Column 2, p. 603; in volume edition, Chapter 46, p. 419). | Book Five, "Fulfilment," Chapters 45-46 (pp. 601-603). | |
| Instalment 20: It was not until about three o'clock that Tess raised her eyes and gave a momentary glance round. She felt but little surprise at seeing that Alec D'Urberville had come back, and was standing under the hedge by the gate | 28 November (p. 633) | This twentieth instalment ends: "Come to me — come to me, and save me from what threatens me! Your faithful, heartbroken 'Tess'." (Bottom of Column 1, p. 634; in volume edition, Chapter 49, p. 437). | Book Five, Chapters 47-48 (pp. 633-634) | |
| Instalment 21: On going up to the fire to throw a pitch of dead weeds upon it, she found that he did the same on the other side. The fire flared up, and she beheld the face of D'Urberville. The unexpectedness of his presence, the grotesqueness of his appearance in a gathered smock-frock such as was now worn only by the most old-fashioned of the labourers, had a ghastly comicality that chilled her as to its bearing. D'Urberville emitted a low, long laugh. | 5 December (pp. 670-671). | The twenty-first instalment ends: "So do flux and reflux — the rhythm of change — alternate and persist in everything under the sky." (Bottom of Column 2, p. 668 — a two-page illustration follows on pp. 670-671; in volume edition, Chapter 50, p. 455). | Book Five, Chapters 49-50 (pp. 665, 668). | |
| Instalment 22: "You be the woman they call Mrs. Durbeyfield, I reckon?" he said to Tess's mother, who had remounted. | 12 December (p. 693) | The twenty-second instalment ends: ". . . after which they continued in a mood of emotional exaltation at their own generosity, which made them sing in hysterical snatches and weep at the same time." (Bottom of Column 1, p. 695; in volume edition, Chapter 52, p. 473) | Book Five, Chapters 51-52 (pp. 693-695) | . |
| Instalment 23: He lay on his back as if he had scarcely moved | 19 December (p. 725). | The twenty-third instalment ends: "In a quarter of an hour the news that a gentleman who was a temporary visitor to the town had been stabbed in his bed, spread through every street and villa of the popular watering-place. (To be concluded)" (bottom of p. 727; in volume edition, Chapter 56, p. 499). | Book Five, Chapters 53-56 (pp. 725-727). | |
| Instalment 24: Something seemed to move on the verge of the dip eastward . . . | 26 December (p. 759) | This twenty-fourth instalment ends: "As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on. THE END" (Mid-column 2 on p. 761; in volume edition, Chapter 59, p. 519). | Book Five, Chapters 57-59 (pp. 759-761) |
Note: Titles of Books in the Weekly Serial, 4 July through 26 December, 1891
- One: "Education at a Dear School," Ch. I-III (pp. 11-13) (Phase the First, "The Maiden," Ch. I-XI in volume)
- Two: "The Rally," Ch. XIV-XXIII (Phase the Second, "Maiden No More," Ch. XII-XV in volume; Phase the Third, "The Rally," Ch. XVI-XXIV in volume)
- Three: "The Consequence," Ch. XXIV to XXXIV (Phase the Fourth in volume, Ch. XXV-XXXIV)
- Four: "The Woman Pays," Ch. XXXV to XLIV (Phase the Fifth, "The Woman Pays" in volume, Ch. XXXV-XLIV)
- Five: "The Convert" Ch. XLV to LII (Phase the Sixth, "The Convert" in volume, Ch. XLV-LII).
- Five: "Fulfilment," Ch LIII to LIX (ends Dec. 19, p 761)(Phase the Seventh, "Fulfilment" in volume, Ch. LIII-LIX).
The 1897 Osgood McIlvaine edition of the novel has seven "phases," and has restored the three sections which Hardy omitted from the "family reading" serial:
the most significant omissions being chapters 10 and 11 (the seduction of Tess) and chapter 14 (the baptism and death of Tess's baby). [Vann, 88].
Mary Ellen Chase details thirty-two points in the plot of the novel, and notes that the most significant different between the serial and the volume is incident five, "by all means the most important incident of the novel, since upon it hangings nothing less than the story itself" (75), namely Alec D'Urberville's seduction of Tess in The Chase near Trantridge. These missing chapters, ten and eleven, Hardy published separately in a Special Literary Supplement of the National Observer for 14 November 1891 as "Saturday Night in Arcady," in which, however, he does not identify the girl involved as Tess. Chase notes the necessity for changing chapter numbers from the manuscript to the serial:
Chapter ix in the book but x in the serial, in which the chapters are arranged somewhat differently, especially in the case of chapter iv, which in serial becomes chapters iv and v. [110]
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