Reading classics can be a bit like listening to great pieces of music. Often accompanying the experience is a weighty realization that some universal truth has been put forth within the pages for ...
The Hardy Society Journal appears twice annually, in spring and summer. Contributions might include – but are not limited to – reports on Society activities and other Hardy-related events, Society ...
Dr. Ronald D. Morrison, professor of English at Morehead State University, has published a new book "Thomas Hardy: A Companion to the Novels." The volume appears in the McFarland Companions to 19th ...
Paula Byrne’s hefty biography, “Hardy Women,” considers the British poet and novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) from the standpoint of the strong women who influenced him. The book’s subtitle specifies ...
In a lifetime that spanned the early Victorian period and the aftermath of the First World War, Hardy witnessed huge changes: the mechanisation of farming, the rapid growth of cities, the ...
Angelique Richardson receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Wellcome Trust The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy may be overshadowed in schools today by writers ...
In the summer of 1926, Thomas Hardy was visited at his house in Dorset by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, she being "the daughter of his old editor Leslie Stephen." Hardy, Claire Tomalin reports in this ...
The Hardy Monument stands at one the highest points in Dorset At one of the highest points in Dorset, above the village of Portesham, stands a monument to Thomas Hardy. The stone tower, built in 1844, ...