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\nTHE PERSONAL NOTEBOOKS OF THOMASHARDY(editor)  \nTHENEGLECTEDHARDY  \nThomas Hardy's Lesser Novels  \nRichard H.Taylor  \nM  \nRichard H.Taylor 1982  \nSoftcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1982978-0-333-31051-9  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without permission  \nFirst published 1982 byTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTDLondon and BasingstokeCompanies and representatvesthroughout the world  \nISBN 978-1-349-16756-2  \nISBN 978-1-349-16754-8(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-16754-8  \nTo all my former students and colleagues  \nin the Department of English at Stockwell College,with thanks for their good friendship  \nContents  \nPrefatory Note  \n1X.X1  \nAbbreviations  \n1 Introduction  \n1  \n2 'Well,that's a rum story':Desperate Remedies(1871)  \n6  \n3 Finding a method:A Pair of Blue Eyes(1873)  \n29  \n4'The end of the happy endings':The Hand of Ethelberta(1876)56  \n5 Historical consciousness and pastoral irony:The Trum-  \npet-Major(1880)  \n76  \n6 A man hit by vicissitudes':A Laodicean(1881)  \n96  \n7 Life-loyalties:Two on a Tower(1882)  \n121  \n8‘A fanciful exhibition of the artistic nature':The Well-Beloved(1892,1897)147  \n9 Conclusion  \n174  \nBibliography  \n184  \nNotes  \n186  \nIndex  \n199  \n# Prefatory Note\n\n'And did it hold your interest?\"Hardy asked Virginia Woolf ofThe Mayor of Casterbridge.To the novelist that is the first criterionof judgement,and if Hardy had asked me the same question ofthe lesser novels the answer would have been a distinctaffirmative.For this book has been inspired by the enjoyment ofreading all Hardy's novels and by the belief that those which areless highly esteemed are nevertheless both interesting andrewarding.At a time when studies of Hardy's major fictioncontinue to proliferate at an astonishing rate,the critical focusshould surely be shifted for once to the lesser novels,in which Isuspect there is a growing interest.And it is this regard for someoften neglected works that I hope to stimulate.  \nI have always been encouraged in this enterprise by my wifePamela,whose enthusiasm and bright good spirits and humourare invaluable;my first and greatest acknowledgement of thanksmust always go to her.In writing about Hardy's lesser novels Ihave enjoyed the immense benefit of the wisdom,advice andfriendship of Professor Kenneth J.Fielding and Mr T.R.M.Creighton,of the Department of English Literature,Universityof Edinburgh,as well as the great pleasure of working with them.I thank Kenneth Fielding and Tom Creighton warmly for theircontinuing interest and generosity.  \nI wish to thank the Trustees of the Thomas Hardy MemorialCollection in the Dorset County Museum for their kind per-mission to quote from materials in the Hardy Collection.And Iwould like to thank Hardy friends and scholars who encouragedme to publish my studies of theselesser novels,including DrJamesGibson,Professor Ian Gregor and Dr Frank Pinion,as 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