Hardy, Thomas

Hardy, Thomas
(1840-1928)
   Born in Dorset, and working first in architecture, Thomas Hardy became one of the most popular novelists and poets of his day, and his work is still highly regarded. Many of his most popular works were set in a semi-fictional 'Wessex', and included rural dwellers and workers which were described with affection and little condescension. Hardy took a keen and deliberate interest in local customs and other folklore, and often wove such material into his stories; occasionally merely as local colour but often as essential elements in the story; for example, when Eustacia Vye boldly takes a part in the local *mumming play in The Return of the Native (1878), and the *rough music episode in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886). Hardy was himself a fiddle-player and his descriptions of *dances and dance events are particularly evocative, and his manuscripts contain traditional tunes noted by himself. Ruth Firor, Folkways in Thomas Hardy (1931).

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