Research Catalog

Title

Hardy women : mother, sisters, wives, muses / Paula Byrne.

Author

Byrne, Paula

Publication

• London : William Collins, 2024.
• ©2024

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Details

Description

642 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women? n this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century. Hardy Women is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who shaped his passions and his imagination. It is only through understanding and witnessing these hardy women that we can truly enter the heart of this great novelist and poet.

Subject

• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Relations with women
• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Family

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 24-799

ISBN

• 9780008322250
• 0008322252
• 9780008322267
• 0008322260

OCLC

1419049831

Author

Byrne, Paula, author.

Title

Hardy women : mother, sisters, wives, muses / Paula Byrne.

Publisher

London : William Collins, 2024.

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 24-799