Thomas Hardy
(1840-1928), Novelist and poetSitter in 60 portraits
One of the last great novelists of the nineteenth century, who combined realism with a critical view of Victorian society. Hardy's writing centred on tragic characters whose lives are played out against rural landscapes, closely based on his native Dorset. He trained as an architect and wrote in his spare time until the success of Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). Other major works include The Return of the Native (1878), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), The Dynasts (1904-8) and the poetry volume, Satires of Circumstance (1914).
by Alvin Langdon Coburn, published by Duckworth & Co
collotype, 13 October 1913
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by Olive Edis
sepia-toned platinotype, 1914
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by Olive Edis
whole-plate autochrome, 1914
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by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons
bromide print, circa 1916
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by Olive Edis
platinotype on cream card mount, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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'Thomas Hardy sees flying matinee of 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' at Weymouth'
by Central News Ltd
vintage print, 20 September 1926
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Sir Edmund William Gosse; Thomas Hardy
by William Bellows
cream-toned bromide print, 29 June 1927
NPG x17364
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
bromide print
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Thomas Hardy ('Men of the Day. No. 540.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 4 June 1892
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by William Strang, printed by David Strang
etching, 1896
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by William Strang, printed by David Strang
drypoint, 1910
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Links
- Athelhampton House, Dorchester, Dorset
- Blue plaque, 172 Trinity Road, Tooting, London SW17 7HT
- Blue plaque, The Adelphi Terrace, Charing Cross, London WC2N 6BJ
- Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset
- Hardy's Cottage, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
- The Thomas Hardy Society
- Thomas Hardy in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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