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The early life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 : compiled largely from contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years

Archive Print Item: BC Read D143

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Type of record: Book

Title: The early life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 : compiled largely from contemporary notes, letters, diaries, and biographical memoranda, as well as from oral information in conversations extending over many years

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Read D143

Creator(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

Additional creator(s): Hardy, Florence Emily (1879-1937) (Other)

Related people: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Publisher: Macmillan and Co

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1928

Language: English

Size and medium: xii, 327 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/348504

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007796829705181

Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection

Description

Although attributed to his wife, who edited, completed and published this work after his death, the book was 'ghosted' by Hardy himself.


Includes index.

Additional description

Contains loose: pamphlet entitled Pictorial imagery in the novels of Thomas Hardy by Alastair Smart, with inscription on cover: With the compliments of Alastair Smart publisher's pamphlet of New biography and slip with an address noted on it in pencil

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