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HANDS  \nPALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nISBN 978-1-349-20035-1  \nISBN 978-1-349-20033-7(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20033-7  \n◎Timothy Roderick Hands 1989Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1989978-0-333-39390-1  \nAll rights reserved.For information,write:Scholarly and Reference Division,St.Martin's Press,Inc.,175 Fifth Avenue,New York,NY10010  \nFirst published in the United States of America in 1989  \nISBN 978-0-312-02696-7  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataHands,Timothy.Thomas Hardy:distracted preacher?  \nBibliography:p.  \nIncludes index.  \n1.Hardy,Thomas,1840-1928—Religion.  \n2.Christianity in literature.3.Bible in literature.I.TitlePR4757.R4H36   1989823′.888-26381ISBN 978-0-312-02696-7  \nFor my parents  \nNot one is there among us that understandeth any more.  \nThomas Hardy to C.W.Moule,after the deathof Moule's brother Handley(LTH 405)  \nList of PlatesAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations  \n# Introduction\n\n1 Hardy's Religious Biography2 Hardy's Use of Biblical Allusion3 Hardy's Characters  \n4 Hardy and Christian Doctrine5 Hardy's Religious ArtAppendixNotes  \nList of Principal Sources ConsultedIndex  \nix  \nX  \n1  \n5  \n37  \n55  \n80  \n106  \n141  \n145  \n160  \n168  \n# List of Plates\n\n1 Hardy in 1861(Dorset County Museum)  \n2(a)Hardy's sketch of the Old West Gallery in StinsfordChurch(Dorset County Museum)  \n(b)'The Singers',a High Church cartoon of the 1860s(fromThe Deformation and the Reformation',by A.R.Mowbray)  \n3(a)Arthur Shirley,Vicar of Stinsford (Major J.E.Shirley)  \n(b)Robert Shirley(Major J.E.Shirley)  \n(c)Henry Robert Bastow (James and Gregory Stevens-Cox)  \n4 (a)John Stephenson,Vicar of St John's,Weymouth(St John'sChurch Weymouth PCC)  \n(b)St John's Church and Weymouth Bay(from a lithographof the 1850s)  \n5(a)The Moule family outside Fordington Vicarage(DorsetCounty Museum)  \n(b)Horace Moule (Eton College,School Library)  \n6 Hardy's sketch of St Stephen's,Paddington,from his lodgings(Dorset County Museum)  \n7(a)St Stephen's Church,Paddington(from an engraving inthe 'Tllustrated London News')  \n(b)Harvey Brooks,Vicar of St Stephen's,Paddington(Vicarand PCC of St Stephen's,Paddington)  \n(c)Archibald Boyd,Vicar of St James's,Paddington(ExeterCathedral and University Archives)  \n(d)St Mary's Church,Kilburn(from an engraving in The NewChurch of St Mary,Kilburn')  \n8(a)Hardy's unexecuted design for a Church(Dorset CountyMuseum)  \n(b)Hardy's sketch of Stinsford Churchyard(BirminghamMuseum and Art Gallery)  \n Acknowledgements   \nThe completion of this project would not have been possiblewithout the help of many people.There is space to mention toofew:librarians and archivists,especially Mr R.N.R.Peers,whodealt courteously with innumerable queries;typists,especiallyVanessa Joseph,who struggled with a hinting hand;surpriseddescendants of the clergymen Hardy knew,in particular MissMary Frampton,and Major J.E.Shirley,who has the distinctionof being both Arthur Shirley's great-great-grandson and hisgreat-great-great-nephew;many friends,who provided accom-modation,or checked facts or typescripts with humour andpatience;and the Provost and Fellows of Oriel College,Oxford,who gave splendid accommodation in which to finish the project-particularly Reggie Burton,who generously provided the where-withal for them to do so.My fiancée Jane's involvement with thelaw and devotion to matters sporting helped me from losing asense of perspective,and her from feeling a Hardy widow whilstwaiting a little overlong to become a Hands wife.  \nThe book has been thoroughly checked.I am responsible,andregretful,for any errors which remain;and grateful to a thoroughteam of readers,Lennart Björk,Glenn Black,David Brown,Reggieand Hester Burton,James Gibson,Michael Millgate,and,mostof all,my Oxford supervisor John Bayley,for removing manyinaccuracies and misconc","cbCairQd1t5HuqqK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairQd1t5HuqqK","pdf",19554801,191,"English","# 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