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This chapter falls into two parts. The first is a brief introduction to Victorian architecture in relation to Hardy’s experience of it. The second is a totally personal suggestion of how Hardy’s career as an architect influenced his work as an author.
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Jude the Obscure, ed. Patricia Ingham (Oxford, 1985), p. 322.
Edmund Blunden, Thomas Hardy (1942: London, 1967), p. 35.
The Return of the Native, ed. Simon Gatrell (Oxford, 1985), p. 64; The Mayor of Casterbridge, ed. Dale Kramer (Oxford, 1987), p. 157; Tess of the d’Urbervilles, eds Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell (Oxford, 1988), p. 383; Jude the Obscure, p. 193.
‘Memories of Church Restoration’, in Thomas Hardy’s Personal Writings, ed. Harold Orel (1966; London, 1967), p. 203.
A. N. W. Pugin, Contrasts, ed. H. R. Hitchcock (Leicester University Press, 1969), p. 1.
Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: a Biography (Oxford, 1982), p. 259.
The Stones of Venice, in The Works of John Ruskin, eds E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, 39 vols (London, 1903–12), X. 204.
This is briefly described by Robert Gittings in his Young Thomas Hardy (London, 1975), pp. 115–16.
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Hands, T. (2000). Hardy’s Architecture: a General Perspective and a Personal View. In: Mallett, P. (eds) The Achievement of Thomas Hardy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-65271-6_6
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