(Description) Figure 7 This illustration from the Cornhill magazine’s serialisation of Far From the Madding Crowd shows the social status of the two women. Bathsheba is taller and more elegant then her servant Liddy. We see Bathsheba’s lovely face clearly, and only a side view of Liddy’s. Notice that the illustrator has included some of the detail from Hardy’s description of the room: Bathsheba’s piano is visible on the left. Apart from the brightness of Liddy’s dress, the setting is dark and rather sombre.