Life's Little Ironies is a collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy originally published in
1894 and republished with a slightly different collection of stories for the Uniform Edition
in 1927 8. There is a Prefatory Note to the revised edition written by the author which says
this of the above contents: Of the following collection the first story 'An Imaginative Woman'
originally stood in Wessex Tales but was brought into this volume as being more nearly its
place turning as it does upon a trick of Nature so to speak a physical possibility that may
attach to a wife of vivid imaginings as is well known to medical practitioners and other
observers of such manifestations.
