By Michael Millgate
Michael Millgate's vintage biography of Thomas Hardy, was once first released in 1982. a lot new information regarding Hardy has for the reason that turn into to be had, frequently in volumes edited or co-edited via Millgate himself, and lots of proven assumptions were challenged and revolutionized through scholarly learn. during this commonly revised, totally reconsidered, and considerably-expanded new version Millgate, the world's major Hardy student, attracts not just upon those new fabrics yet upon an excellent figuring out of Hardy won from lengthy immersion within the learn of his existence and paintings. Many huge and small features of Hardy's existence are the following freshly illuminated, together with his relatives heritage, his fumbling self-education as a poet, his tricky kin together with his first spouse and hers along with his relatives, his sexual infatuations, his mystery collaborations with aspiring girls writers, his clandestine composition of his personal reputable biography, and the memory-invoking ideas through which he sustained his extraordinary creativity into severe outdated age. Thorough, authoritative and eminently readable, Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited turns into the normal lifetime of Hardy for a brand new iteration.
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Asked by Rider Haggard in 1902 about the lot of the Dorset agricultural labourer, he replied that ‘down to 1850 or 1855 his condition was in general one of great hardship’, citing as an admittedly extreme case his childhood memory of ‘a sheep-keeping boy who, to my horror, shortly afterwards died of want, the contents of his stomach at the autopsy being raw turnip only. His father’s wages were 6s. ’²³ Conditions were no less squalid in the semi-rural, semi-urban slums of Fordington, on the outskirts of Dorchester.
Farm labourers (these were never called by the latter name by themselves and other country people till about 70 years ago). ⁸ Thomas Hardy senior, like his wife, had relatives who clearly belonged to the second and lower of the two castes, but he and his immediate family laid claim to the superior rank by virtue of his position as a master mason, an employer of men (however few), and the lifehold tenant of a substantial dwelling with adjoining land and outbuildings. Such discriminations mattered, and more than simple snobbery underlay Hardy’s insistence, in his later years, upon distinctions that had to do not only with his own background but also with the fates of such fictional characters as Stephen Smith, Gabriel Oak, Michael Henchard, and Giles Winterborne.
The poem ‘In Tenebris. ⁴⁰ A degree of initial passivity would square well enough with the early anecdote of Hardy’s being found asleep in his crib with a snake curled up beside him and with his later habits of quiet observation and physical withdrawal, but any quasi-catatonic phase, if it existed at all, can scarcely have been of long duration. ⁴¹ No more than hints can be gathered of the precise nature of Hardy’s deeply affectionate relationship with his sister Mary, much closer to him in age and in interests, enthusiasms, and sympathies than either Henry, born when Hardy was 10, or Katharine, born when he was 16.