The Thomas Hardy Resource Library
A good starting point for the Hardy fan, with a chronology, links, and more. [Mark Simons]
Thomas Hardy overview
Biographical, contextual, and critical discussions. [Victorian Web]
Thomas Hardy Society
A site, and society, "for scholars, students, readers,
enthusiasts and anyone with an interest in Thomas Hardy."
Thomas Hardy Association
Another rich site, with links to various Hardy resources.
Biographical note
[Author's Calendar]
Brief biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Thomas Hardy Miscellany
[John Gould, Phillips Andover Academy]
Thomas Hardy page
[Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U]
Brief biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]
Brief biographical note
[Poets.org; Academy of American Poets]
Hardy Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts by Hardy. [Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U]
"Barbara of the House of Grebe"
The second of the ten tales comprising Hardy's
A Group of Noble Dames, first published in 1891. This tale, with its depiction of psychological abuse bordering on sadism, puts me in mind of
Bernard Capes' "An Eddy on the Floor"; its use of disfigurement and masking are suggestive of
Gaston LeRoux's
Phantom of the Opera and
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil," and the statue suggests and inverts Hawthorne's
The Marble Faun and may be compared to
E. Nesbit's much more literally threatening statue in "Man-Size in Marble" and to the disturbing statue in Shirley Jackson's
The Haunting of Hill House. This story was
filmed in 1973, with Ben Kingsley as the sadistic Lord Uplandtowers.
(2K)
"The Superstitious Man's Story (25K) [Bartleby.com]
Evincing Hardy's interest in English folklore, this brief piece treats of that ghostly tradition which is also the subject of
John Keats' "The Eve of St. Mark."
"The Withered Arm"
Hardy's most "Gothic" tale, first published in 1888 in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Filmed in 1973.
