Right: A portrait of Thomas Hardy by Reginal Grenville from 1923. Courtesy Dorset Museum & Art Gallery/Dorset History Centre. Left: The front of Max Gate, Dorset.

A Neolithic site discovered under author Thomas Hardy’s house has been protected as a scheduled monument. The circular enclosure is almost 100 metres in diameter and is made up of ditches and pits.

HARDY IN AMERICA (321 pp.)—Carl J. Weber—Colby College Press ($5).Thomas Hardy never set foot on U.S. soil, doubtless never dreamed of a special immortality in the state of Maine. But Colby ...

Thomas Hardy penned eight beautiful novels that can traverse heartbreak with a rare, intense depth and emotional honesty, leaving a lasting impact on readers., Books News - Times Now ...

In the summer of 1926, Thomas Hardy was visited at his house in Dorset by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, she being "the daughter of his old editor Leslie Stephen." Hardy, Claire Tomalin reports in ...

In 1912, when he was 72, Thomas Hardy began to write a series of love poems about his wife, Emma. The poems were unlikely for several reasons. First, for years he and Emma had been estranged, and ...

The site under Thomas Hardy's home was discovered under the garden of Max Gate, in Dorchester, Dorset, and dates back to the Middle Neolithic period, between 3365 to 2960 BC ...

This fresh version of the 1874 Thomas Hardy novel is gutsy and passionate. Leading lady Carey Mulligan (a Tony nominee for Broadway’s “Skylight” ) is magnetic as Bathsheba Everdene, a vain ...

By Thomas Hardy I While rain, with eve in partnership, Descended darkly, drip, drip, drip, Beyond the last lone lamp I passed Walking ...