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A few months after Thomas Hardy’s death in 1928, and only weeks before his own, Sir Edmund Gosse recorded on two gramophone discs a memorial for his nearly lifelong friend. While Hardy lived, Gosse ...
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 ...
Self-taught, Thomas Hardy knew a good deal about English poetry when, in his fifties, he laid the fictions by and returned to his first love. He was an honest craftsman, attending meticulously to what ...
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“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs,” declares Bathsheba Everdene, the young heroine of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the ...
The Monty Python sketch of Thomas Hardy writing “The Return of the Native” takes place inside a packed soccer stadium with an announcer providing play-by-play analysis of the author’s glacial writing ...
On June 2, 1840 Thomas Hardy was born in the first house to be built on the first building plot of Kingston Maurward Estate’s ...