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 ...

Evocative photographs showing Victorian author Thomas Hardy visiting real-life locations that inspired him to write The Mayor of Casterbridge have emerged almost 100 years later. The great novelist ...

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 ...

Thomas Hardy began his schooling in the year in which the ‘Communist Manifesto’ was published, and he lived to see the Russian Revolution Picture credit: Wikimedia Works of literature are often shaped ...

She is not only one of English literature’s most beloved of tragic heroines, but recently discovered fan mail has now revealed that Thomas Hardy’s character Tess of the D’Urbervilles inspired the ...