Thomas Hardy

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Standard Name: Hardy, Thomas
TH was a poet by vocation and became a novelist by profession. The Wessex of his novels has made him arguably a regional novelist. As well as a prolific output in both these forms, he published a unique verse epic bringing together human and supernatural characters, short fiction, a volume for children, and two volumes of actual autobiography masquerading as a biography by his second wife. Since his career as a publishing novelist ran from the 1870s to the 1890s, and his first volume of poetry post-dated his final novel, he has been seen as a Victorian novelist but a mostly twentieth-century poet. This description, however, is not true to the facts of composition. He wrote poetry from early in his life, but did not publish it in volume form until his final novel.

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Wealth and Poverty Geraldine Jewsbury
Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Travel Susan Hill
Meanwhile, she established a habit of long visits: first to a country cottage in Dorset and then to a rented house at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. These were places used not for social or emotional...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
MB credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson 's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson 's Miriam and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Philip Larkin
The central subject is the period which saw the rise of modernism and its assimilation—or not—into the native English tradition,
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber.
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a tradition represented here by poets from Housman , Hardy , and William Barnes
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Q. D. Leavis
Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope , Hardy , Gissing , Forster , Orwell , and Aldous Huxley ; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and...
Textual Production Rosamund Marriott Watson
In 1894 RMW (as Graham R. Tomson) published in the American Independent two articles about Thomas Hardy , whom she had met in 1889.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
581
He may have used her a couple of years...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes, and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...
Textual Production Sarah Grand
An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG 's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn)
Textual Production Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA 's posthumous biographical study entitled Thomas Hardy at Max Gate was her final work to see print.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Textual Production Ella D'Arcy
Six stories by EDA have been identified as published between 1899 and 1910 (after the demise of The Yellow Book in April 1897) in Century Magazine, Temple Bar, and The English Review (which...
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH edited a selection of Thomas Hardy for Penguin in 1979: The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales; it includes her introduction and notes. She has written new introductions for two novels by F. M. Mayor
Textual Production Emma Tennant
Her title, borrowed from that of a poem of pure nostalgia by Thomas Hardy , suggests the irony with which her protagonist is to be disillusioned over the country-house ideal. The second title in the...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
In the same year she published Tess, which is based on and continues the story of Hardy 's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
She followed these the next year with a return to Austen
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert 's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...

Timeline

1876: John Maxwell sold Belgravia to Chatto and...

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1876

John Maxwell sold Belgravia to Chatto and Windus , ending Mary Elizabeth Braddon 's association with the monthly.

October 1877: Charles Kegan Paul arranged to purchase the...

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October 1877

Charles Kegan Paul arranged to purchase the publishing firm of his employer H. S. King to form Kegan Paul and Co.

May 1893: The Pall Mall Magazine began monthly publication;...

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May 1893

The Pall Mall Magazine began monthly publication; it ran until September 1914.

2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...

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2 September 1914

The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.

1952: The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham...

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1952

The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham confided to his former headmaster that he believed that the Order of Merit was something that they ought to award him, as the greatest living writer of English.

June 1966: Anthropologist Mary Douglas published her...

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June 1966

AnthropologistMary Douglas published her best-known work, Purity and Danger, a study of ritual behaviour and taboo.

Texts

Sigerson, Dora, and Thomas Hardy. A Dull Day in London. Eveleigh Nash, 1920.
Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. Tinsley Brothers, 1873.
Hardy, Thomas. Desperate Remedies. Tinsley Brothers, 1871.
Hardy, Thomas, and Helen Allingham. Far from the Madding Crowd. Smith, Elder, 1874.
Hardy, Thomas. “General Introduction”. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell, Clarendon Press, 1983, pp. 1-103.
Hardy, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles. Macmillan, 1925.
Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1895.
Hardy, Thomas. Late Lyrics and Earlier : with many other Verses. Macmillan, 1922.
Hardy, Thomas. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses. Macmillan, 1917.
Hardy, Thomas. Our Exploits at West Poley. Oxford University Press, 1952.
Hardy, Thomas, and Dora Sigerson. “Prefatory Note”. A Dull Day in London, Eveleigh Nash, 1920, pp. 7-8.
Hardy, Thomas. Satires of Circumstance. Macmillan, 1914.
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891.
Hardy, Thomas. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Editors Purdy, Richard Little and Michael Millgate, Clarendon Press, 1988.
Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. Macmillan, 1908.
Hardy, Thomas. The Early Life of Thomas Hardy 1840-1891. Editor Hardy, Florence, Macmillan, 1928.
Hardy, Thomas. The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928. Editor Hardy, Florence, Macmillan, 1930.
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge. Smith, Elder, 1886.
Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. Smith, Elder, 1878.
Hardy, Thomas. The Well-Beloved. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1897.
Hardy, Thomas. Under the Greenwood Tree. Tinsley Brothers, 1872.
Hardy, Thomas. Wessex Poems. Harper and Brothers, 1898.
Hardy, Thomas. Winter Words. Macmillan, 1928.