Tess in Popular Culture
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles is mentioned in the movie Party Monster.
- Art Garfunkel named his first post-Simon & Garfunkel solo album Angel Clare after the character of the same name.
- American writer Christopher Bram wrote a novel entitled In Memory of Angel Clare (1989).
- 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 mentioned towards the end of M. R. James' short ghost story "The Mezzotint" (1904).
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles is referenced to in the poem "Man and Dog" by Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas.
- Third Eye Blind's song "Summer Town" refers to "Nabokov, Miller, and Tess" as the favorite fiction of the song's protagonist.
- John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany mentions the narrator, John, teaching Tess of the d'Urbervilles to high school students.
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles is referred to in Margaret Atwood's short story "My Last Duchess", published in Moral Disorder (2006).
- The English songwriter Nigel Blackwell has placed a number of references to the novel in a number of his songs, including the song titled, "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" from the album Cammell Laird Social Club. The E.P. Editor's Recommendation also includes the lyrics "the serpent often hisses where the sweet birds do sing" and "my hands are stained with thistle milk" in the songs "On Passing Lilac Urine" and "Lark Descending", respectively.
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles is mentioned in John Knowles' novel "A Separate Peace."
- Mary alludes to Tess of the d'Urbervilles during the 2011 "Downton Abbey" Christmas special.
- "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is mentioned throughout the series "Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy" by English author E.L. James.
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