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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Novelist and poet

Sitter associated with 56 portraits
Novelist and poet; one of the last great novelists of the nineteenth century; his writing is both visionary and naturalistic, his doomed and tragic characters playing out their lives against a rural landscape, often set in his native Dorset. Among his major works are Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874, The Return of the Native, 1878, The Woodlanders, 1887, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891, and Jude the Obscure, 1896.

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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 17 July 1908
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'Luncheon Party at the House of Commons'

probably by Roland Parker Stone, for Sir (John) Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 17 July 1908
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Henry Walter ('H. Walter') Barnett
whole-plate glass negative, 1909
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Thomas Hardy

by Alvin Langdon Coburn, published by Duckworth & Co
collotype, 13 October 1913
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Thomas Hardy

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
sepia-toned platinotype, 1914
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Thomas Hardy

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
bromide print, 1914
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Thomas Hardy

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
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Thomas Hardy

by Emil Otto ('E.O.') Hoppé
photogravure, 1914
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Thomas Hardy

by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy)
bromide print, 1923
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Thomas Hardy

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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Thomas Hardy

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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Links
Athelhampton House, Dorchester, Dorset
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset
Hardy's Cottage, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
The Thomas Hardy Society, Dorchester
Category
Literature, Journalism and Publishing
Groups
First World War Poets
Novelists and authors
Poets
Regency rebels, radicals and reformers
War Poets
Place
Dorset