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Mr. Thomas Hardy’s novels have been, on the whole, favourably received, and many of their merits recognised. Yet their most characteristic features have either been passed over in silence, or pronounced exaggerated, simply because very few of the readers are able to judge in these matters of his workmanship. Just as a gaping crowd, catalogue-armed, may stand before a great picture with vague, unintelligent admiration, while only those with special artistic training will be able to explain wherein its merit consists, so in Mr. Hardy’s ‘Rural Painting of the Dutch School,’ and other studies, those can best appreciate his work who know the wolds and woods, the lanes and villages of his own Dorset, the speech and the thought of those who traverse and inhabit them.
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D.N.B., Supplement 1901–1911, III, 80–81; F. A. Mumby The House of Routledge 1834–1934 (London, 1934), pp. 178, 193; Paul, Memories, p. 314.
I. C. Willis’s notes on this conversation of 1937 are contained in a small pocketbook, now in DCM. For ‘The Interloper’, see Moments of Vision, pp. 299–300, and Purdy, p. 200. For the wedding, see Evelyn Hardy, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography (London, 1954): on September 18, 1874, Hardy wrote to his brother, ‘There were only Emma and I, her uncle who married us, and her brother’ (p. 143).
Early Life, pp. 133, 135–136, 141, 142, 145–147. Emma’s diary for this period is in DCM, a black notebook headed ‘Emma L. Hardy./1874./West End Cottage./Swanage.’ It records the wedding trip, with some notes of later movements, and (at the back) the 1876 visit to Holland and Germany; for extracts, see Evelyn Hardy, ‘Emma Hardy’s Diaries: Some Foreshadowings of The Dynasts’, English, 14 (1962), [9]–12.
Paul, Memories, p. 259; cf. Paul’s article, ‘The Condition of the Agricultural Labourer’, Theological Review, 5 (1868), 107–127.
Hardy to Blackwood, February 13, 1877, and April 12,1877 (both in National Library of Scotland). The MS could conceivably have been an early version of The Woodlanders (see Early Life, pp. 135, 230), but John Paterson, The Making of ‘The Return of the Native’ (Berkeley, 1960), p. 47, suggests on the basis of MS evidence that The Return of the Native may originally have been pastoral in character: see p. 130.
See Early Life, p. 160. Hardy’s original pen and ink sketch is in DCM and is briefly described in Donald Morrison, comp., Exhibition of Hardy’s Drawings & Paintings (Dorchester, [1968]), p. 4.
The map was again used as a frontispiece in the Kegan Paul one-volume edn. of 1880; it has recently been reproduced in James Gindin, ed., The Return of the Native (New York, 1969), p. [x]. In a letter to Sir Frederick Macmillan of January 17, 1911 (British Museum) Hardy referred to the map as a forerunner of the Wessex map printed in the volumes of the Osgood, McIlvaine edn.
See above, p. 36, 73. Hutton’s authorship of the Desperate Remedies review is confirmed by his letter to Hardy of April 29, 1873 (DCM), in which he apologises for having caused Hardy any distress.
Hardy to Perkins (i.e., the Rev. T. Perkins, Rector of Turnworth: see Later Years, p. 123), April 20, 1900, in Carroll A. Wilson, Thirteen Author Collections of the Nineteenth Century and Five Centuries of Familiar Quotations, ed. J. C. S. Wilson and D. A. Randall. 2 vols. (New York, 1950), I, 51. For further ‘identifications’ of places in the novel, see Lea, Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, pp. 71–82.
Gosse to Hardy, October 17, 1886, in Evan Charteris, The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, 1931), p. 201.
Barnes, Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect: with a Dissertation and Glossary (London, 1844), p. 11.
Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in Common English (London, 1868), p. [v].
This passage was noted in Wilson, Thirteen Author Collections, I, 97, and the whole question has recently been discussed in W. J. Keith, ‘Thomas Hardy and the Name “Wessex”’, English Language Notes, 6 (1968), 42–44.
Hynes, ‘Hardy and Barnes: Notes on Literary Influence’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 58 (1959), 48.
See also Paul Zietlow, ‘Thomas Hardy and William Barnes: Two Dorset Poets’, PMLA, 84 (1969), 291–303.
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Millgate, M. (1994). On Native Grounds: Charles Kegan Paul and William Barnes. In: Thomas Hardy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379534_10
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