Her father, Thomas Hardy
, was a surgeon and male midwife.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Olive Banks
says he appears to have been a mean, domineering man.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
