Thomas Hardy: His Life and Friends

by F.B. Pinion

Overview

This biography contains new disclosures and interpretations of evidence, neglecting nothing significant in Hardy's early years or his later life. It draws from innumerable sources, including all his published writings (not least the poems), biographies of him and of contemporaries, correspondence of friends and acquaintances, Emma Hardy's diaries, and many unpublished letters from her and Florence Hardy, and brief background introductions indicate how some of Hardy's friends influenced his career or enriched his life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333625200
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/18/1994
Edition description:	1992
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations - Preface and Acknowledgements - Ancestry and Birth - School and Manor - Further Education - Hicks, Barnes, and Bastow - The Moules of Fordington - Arthur Blomfield and London - First Verse and Fiction - Emma Gifford - Shock, Success and Marriage - Leslie Stephen - 'A Two-Years Idyll' - 'The FAILURE of THINGS' - This Way and That - At Wimborne Minster - Gosse, Dorchester, and The Mayor - Max Gate, The Woodlanders, and Italy - Tales and Tess - Florence Henniker - Jude and Consequences - To the Century's End - The Dynasts - Florence Emily Dugdale - Emma's Death - Aftercourses - In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations' - Age and Youth - Late Drama and T.E. Lawrence - The Coming of the End - His Death and After - In Retrospect - Bibliography and References - General Index - Index to Hardy's Prose and Poetry