Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Thomas Hardy
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Standard Name: Hardy, Thomas
TH
was a poet by vocation and became a novelist by profession. The Wessex of his novels has made him arguably a regional novelist. As well as a prolific output in both these forms, he published a unique verse epic bringing together human and supernatural characters, short fiction, a volume for children, and two volumes of actual autobiography masquerading as a biography by his second wife. Since his career as a publishing novelist ran from the 1870s to the 1890s, and his first volume of poetry post-dated his final novel, he has been seen as a Victorian novelist but a mostly twentieth-century poet. This description, however, is not true to the facts of composition. He wrote poetry from early in his life, but did not publish it in volume form until his final novel.
In 1894 RMW
(as Graham R. Tomson) published in the American Independent two articles about Thomas Hardy
, whom she had met in 1889.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995.
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He may have used her a couple of years...
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Sarah Grand
An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG
's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton
in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn)
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Margaret Drabble
MD
edited a book of essays entitled The Genius of Thomas Hardy.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1979
British Book News. British Council.
(1976): 457
Drabble, Margaret. The Radiant Way. Penguin, 1988.
SH
edited a selection of Thomas Hardy
for Penguin
in 1979: The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales; it includes her introduction and notes. She has written new introductions for two novels by F. M. Mayor
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Elizabeth Jolley
EJ
invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert
's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 1993, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson
's Rasselas and Goethe
's Elective Affinities (both of which...
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Emma Tennant
Her title, borrowed from that of a poem of pure nostalgia by Thomas Hardy
, suggests the irony with which her protagonist is to be disillusioned over the country-house ideal. The second title in the...
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Emma Tennant
In the same year she published Tess, which is based on and continues the story of Hardy
's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
She followed these the next year with a return to Austen
CM
's manuscripts of poems and short stories and her unpublished letters are held in the British Library
and in the Lockwood Memorial Library at SUNY Buffalo
. The librarians at Buffalo are said to...
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Lady Cynthia Asquith
LCA
's posthumous biographical study entitled Thomas Hardy
at Max Gate was her final work to see print.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
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Marjorie Bowen
MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and...
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Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield
, Conrad
, Hardy
, and James
, along with Willa Cather
and Sinclair Lewis
. However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
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Philip Larkin
The central subject is the period which saw the rise of modernism and its assimilation—or not—into the native English tradition,
Motion, Andrew. Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life. Faber and Faber, 1993.
Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope
, Hardy
, Gissing
, Forster
, Orwell
, and Aldous Huxley
; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and...
Travel
Susan Hill
Meanwhile, she established a habit of long visits: first to a country cottage in Dorset and then to a rented house at Aldeburgh in Suffolk. These were places used not for social or emotional...
