Collection K/PP162 - HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928)

Born Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, 1840; studied under ecclesiastical architect John Hicks, 1856-1861; studied Gothic architecture under Sir Arthur Blomfield, London, 1862-1867; married Emma Lavinia Gifford (died 1912), 1874; awarded Order of Merit, 1910; awarded Gold Medal of Royal Society of Literature, 1912; married Florence Emily Dugdale, 1914; died 1928.

Publications: Desperate Remedies (Tinsley Bros, London, 1871); Under the greenwood tree Tinsley Bros, London, 1872); A pair of blue eyes (Tinsley Bros, London, 1873); Far from the madding crowd (Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1874); Hand of Ethelberta (Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1876); Return of the native (Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1878); The trumpet-major (Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1879); A Laodicean, or the castle of the De Stancys. A story of today (Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1881); Two on a tower (Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1882); The mayor of Casterbridge: the life and death of a man of character (Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1886); The woodlanders (Macmillan & Co, London, 1887); Wessex Tales, strange, lively and commonplace (Macmillan & Co, 1888); A group of noble dames (James R Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, 1891); Tess of the D’Urbervilles: a pure woman (James R Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, 1891); Life’s little ironies: a set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled a few crusted characters (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, 1894); Jude the obscure (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, 1895); The well-beloved: a sketch of a temperament (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, 1897); Wessex Poems and other verses (Harper & Bros, London, 1898); Poems of the past and the present (Harper & Brothers, London, 1902); The Dynasts: a drama of the Napoleonic wars, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes (Macmillan & Co, London, 1903-1908); Satires of circumstance: lyrics and reveries; moments of vision and miscellaneous verses (Macmillan & Co, London, 1912); A changed man, the waiting supper and other tales (Macmillan & Co, London, 1913); Selected poems of Thomas Hardy (Macmillan & Co, London, 1916); Late lyrics and earlier with many other verses (Macmillan & Co, London, 1922); Queen of Cornwall: the famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonness (Macmillan & Co, London, 1923).