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Henniker,1893-1922(edited with Evelyn Hardy)  \n*A COMMENTARY ON THE POEMS OF THOMAS HARDY*THOMAS HARDY:ART AND THOUGHT  \nEdited for the New Wessex edition*THOMAS HARDY:TWO ON A TOWER*THE STORIES OF THOMAS HARDY (3 vols)  \nEdited for the Thomas Hardy Society  \nTHOMAS HARDY AND THE MODERN WORLDBUDMOUTH ESSAYS ON THOMAS HARDYTHE THOMAS HARDY SOCIETY REVIEW(annual;editor 1975-84)  \n*A HARDY COMPANION*A JANE AUSTEN COMPANION*A BRONTE COMPANION*A GEORGE ELIOT COMPANION*A GEORGE ELIOT MISCELLANY*A WORDSWORTH COMPANION*A TENNYSON COMPANION*A D.H.LAWRENCE COMPANION*A T.S.ELIOT COMPANION*A TENNYSON CHRONOLOGY*A WORDSWORTH CHRONOLOGY  \n*THE COLLECTED SONNETS OF CHARLES(TENNYSON)TURNER(edited with M.Pinion)*A THOMAS HARDY DICTIONARY*HARDY THE WRITER  \n*Also published by Palgrave Macmillan  \nThomas Hardy:His Life and Friends  \nF.B.PINION  \n◎F.B.Pinion 1992  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission ofthis publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied ortransmitted save with written permission or in accordance withthe provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham CourtRoad,London WiP9HE.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to thispublication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civilclaims for damages  \nFirst published 1992 byTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nReprinted(with corrections)1994  \nISBN 978-0-333-62520-0  \nISBN 978-1-349-13594-3(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-13594-3  \nA catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library.  \nContents  \nList of Illustrations  \nPreface and Acknowledgements1 Ancestry and Birth2 School and Manor113 Further Education234 Hicks,Barnes,and Bastow395 The Moules of Fordington6 Arthur Blomfield and London597 First Verse and Fiction788 Emma Gifford949 Shock,Success,and Marriage11110 Leslie Stephen12411 'A Two-Years'Idyll'13812 'The FAILURE of THINGS'15413 This Way and That16414 At Wimborne Minster17615 Gosse,Dorchester,and The Mayor18616 Max Gate,The Woodlanders,and Italy19717 Tales and Tess210  \n1  \n49  \nvi  \nContents  \n18 Florence Henniker22519 Jude and Consequences24020 To the Century's End25621 The Dynasts27222 Florence Emily Dugdale29023 Emma's Death30324 Aftercourses31625 In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations'32626 Age and Youth34327 Late Drama and T.E.Lawrence35728 The Coming of the End37629 His Death and After38830 In Retrospect399Bibliography and References408General Index417Index to Hardy's Prose and Poetry434  \nThe Main Hardy Genealogy  \n10  \nMaps  \nBockhampton and the Surrounding Area19The Dorchester of Hardy's Boyhood31The Hardy Country234-5  \nPlates,following page 214  \nla Thomas Hardy's birthplace,from a drawing made by him  \nb The 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