Tess of the D'Urbervilles; by Thomas Hardy.

Tess was normal, healthy, and innocent - and so was noticed by more than one good man, she was noticed by a not so good one as well. Unfortunately she was seduced or raped - boundaries are unclear when she is exausted and fatigued, cold and lost in forest on the way, and uanble to fight back the advances, except in feeble words - when a moment made her easy prey, before the good man came back in her life. and according to the preached morals she had to be shown suffering for the lapse, even though she was more sinned against - by not only losing her love but her life as well. The good man keeps being good, even though he rejects a good woman in spite of his loving her and her him.

What really went on in those days, is probably not so dire. People must have learned to adapt in order to survive any mishaps, and not report the truth if it would throw them out of society and perhaps take away those they love and deprive them of home and life itself. But if course that could not be shown in a book of literature, much less as a life of a heroine or her behaviour. Probably this is why the hold of that convention let go with a snap after the two wars of last century, perhaps even more than due to science opening minds and eyes.