Thomas Hardy Gallery

Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, at Max Gate

Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, in the garden of his home at Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset. Hardy designed the house, and his brother built it -- Hardy and his first wife Emma moved there in 1885. He can be seen here with his bicycle

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Tess harassed by Alec D'Urberville, plate 21 from the monthly serialisation of

XJF466239 Tess harassed by Alec D'Urberville, plate 21 from the monthly serialisation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, printed in The Graphic, 1891 (litho) by Herkomer, Hubert von (1849-1914) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: image accompanied by the quote, On going up to the fire to throw a pitch of dead weeds upon it, she found that he did the same on the other side. The fire flamed up, and she beheld the face of D'Urberville. The unexpectedness of his presence, the grotesqueness of his appearance in a gathered smock frock, such as was now worn only by the most old-fashioned of the labourers, had a ghastly comicality that chilled her as to its bearing. D'Urberville emitted a low, long laugh';); English, out of copyright

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Fiddler in Thomas Hardy Drama Festival, Dorchester

At the Thomas Hardy Drama Festival in Dorchester, Dorset, Henry Bailey, the old fiddler, played the College Hornpipe in the play The Three Wayfarers. He was 75 years of age and one of the last of the old fiddlers who used to travel from one village to another playing at fairs and merrymakings. The famous old Corn Exchange saw the fourth production of a Hardy play acted by Thomas Hardys fellow townsmen, dramatised by the novelist himself. It was reported at the time that the men who were to play in The Three Wayfarers and The Distracted Preacher stood at their shop doors all afternoon, with fitful glances every now and then at The Corn Exchange clock, as if impatient for it to point to the hour of the dress rehearsal. The old Kings Head Hotel, which features in The Mayor of Casterbridge, had for days been filling up with visitors.
circa 1911

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