With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence of the stone-built manor house in the stories of Thomas Hardy.

Birthday celebrations for Dorset's literary giant are set to kick off with a special lecture. Biographer Paula Byrne will deliver a lecture on Thomas Hardy, focusing on the women who influenced ...

Afterwards by Thomas Hardy When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the ...

IN 1891, as the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was checking the proofs of his latest book, Tess of the D’Urbevilles, he paused to write a note of condolence to another writer, Henry Rider Haggard, ...

Hardy’s Homage To Thomas Hardy, watching as Elizabeth Martha Brown’s body hung limply from the noose, she was the true victim of the murder.

Some, like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Victor Hugo, believed they had communicated with spirits directly; others, like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Hardy, had ghostly encounters they couldn’t ...