Thomas Hardy
Historic Thomas Hardy building in Dorchester damaged by fire
Property in Dorset town, known as Casterbridge in Hardy’s novels, was where he was apprenticed to an architect
Steven Morris
09, Dec, 2024 @11:45 AM
Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ under Thomas Hardy’s home given protected status
Enclosure found under late novelist’s garden is older than Salisbury monument and wins national recognition
Esther Addley
24, Sep, 2024 @4:00 AM
The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy review – the writer’s poetry gets a sensuous second life in music
Outstanding performances by Lotte Betts-Dean, James Girling and the Ligeti Quartet enrich atmospheric settings composed and arranged by Arthur Keegan
Fiona Maddocks
03, Aug, 2024 @3:00 PM
Claire Seymour obituary
Other lives: Teacher, academic and writer with specialisms in Thomas Hardy and the operas of Benjamin Britten
David Butler
11, Jun, 2024 @4:27 PM
Waiting for Godot to send in more clowns | Brief letters
Brief letters: Circussy classics | Secondhand clothes | Curtain calls | Cold showers
04, Feb, 2024 @5:20 PM
Ockham’s Razor: Tess review – circus spin finds light and laughter in Thomas Hardy’s tale
This company’s skills cleverly animate the characters in a dreamlike production that does not blunt the novel’s tragedy
Lyndsey Winship
01, Feb, 2024 @11:23 AM
Hardy Women by Paula Byrne review – where love and fiction collide
An illuminating account of the women who inspired Thomas Hardy
Olivia Laing
31, Jan, 2024 @9:00 AM
Hardy Women by Paula Byrne review – brilliant writer of women, very bad husband
An exhaustive biography of Thomas Hardy’s romantic life is most fascinating when it chronicles his complicated menage with his wife and a young typist
Rachel Cooke
22, Jan, 2024 @7:00 AM
The monarchy is still playing with its toys after all these years | Brief letters
Brief letters: Mind the coronation gap | Scale and pomposity | Keeping the faith | Poster vote | Hardy’s Henchard
07, May, 2023 @4:04 PM
In defence of Thomas Hardy’s treatment of women | Letter
Letter: In The Mayor of Casterbridge, he created a strong woman who gets a happy ending, writes Liz Bennett
Letters
05, May, 2023 @4:32 PM
Thomas Hardy’s ‘great’ Henchard is in fact a horrendous misogynist | Letter
Letter: Four decades of feminism topped off by #MeToo has laid bare The Mayor of Casterbridge’s back-to-front moral concerns, writes Matthew Pires
24, Apr, 2023 @5:04 PM
What did I learn from Thomas Hardy? Great characters don’t need a back story | Adrian Chiles
In the 21st century, we are used to picking through the psychological pain and peril of all our fictional heroes. Perhaps we should stop
Adrian Chiles
19, Apr, 2023 @2:10 PM
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