The TV adaptation of Thomas Hardy's romantic saga Tess of the D'urbervilles is topping the ratings. And now a photograph of the the real-life inspiration for the central character is published for the ...

The country home where Thomas Hardy wrote some of his best known novels is to be opened in full to the public for the first time. Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset, was designed by the author himself and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Thomas Hardy Journal is published each autumn. Over the past three decades, it has become an important force in international ...

Florence Dugdale wrote that she was "the proud and very happy wife of the greatest living English writer" Newly discovered letters from novelist Thomas Hardy's second wife have offered a glimpse of ...

Thomas Hardy’s fictional region of Wessex can now be explored at U of T with 170 items, including Hardy's original manuscripts, first editions, annotated books, letters and photographs. The Thomas ...

HARDY IN AMERICA (321 pp.)—Carl J. Weber—Colby College Press ($5). Thomas Hardy never set foot on U.S. soil, doubtless never dreamed of a special immortality in the state of Maine. But Colby College, ...

In 1912, when he was 72, Thomas Hardy began to write a series of love poems about his wife, Emma. The poems were unlikely for several reasons. First, for years he and Emma had been estranged, and she ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Emma Hardy collapsed and died on a November morning in 1912, a few days after she turned 72, no one could ...

At the west end of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a monument to Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy. The Admiral is shown in Roman armour reclining on a sarcophagus and at his feet are putto weeping beside an ...