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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The excited crowd had waited hours to see the condemned woman meet her end on the gallows erected outside Dorchester jail — and their patience would soon be rewarded by a macabre twist in the ...

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 ...

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 ...