Thomas Hardy's public voice : the essays, speeches, and miscellaneous prose / Thomas Hardy ; edited by Michael Millgate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speeches, addresses, etc., English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xl, 500 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

"Thomas Hardy has generally been viewed as an intensely private figure, shy of publicity and even of people, self-isolated in his Dorsetshire home, and much more cautious and conservative in his personal outlook than might be expected of the author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. What the present volume reveals is that Hardy's public utterances, addressed to a wide range of literary, social, and political issues, were far more numerous and various than has previously been imagined. His essays, speeches, and other acknowledged pieces, both formal and informal, are here fully described, edited, and annotated, together with the letters he wrote to newspapers and the many unsigned items, from obituaries to clandestine contributions to literary gossip-columns, that have now been securely or tentatively identified."--Jacket.

Contents:

The alms-house clock

Accounts of church-restoration

Unpublished juvenilia

On the application of coloured bricks and terra cotta to modern architecture

Reopening of turnworth church

Wedding announcement

Response to toast of Whitefriars club

Speech at shotover dinner

Using the Dorset dinner

Thomas Hardy

Dialect in novels

Entry in Men of the Time

Review of William Barnes's poems

Papers of the Manchester Literary Club

Pinero's The Squire

"The Squire" at the St. Jame's Theater

Advertisement for Two on a Tower

English authors and American publishers

Two on a Tower

Study and stimulants

Pictures in elementary schools

The Dorsetshire labourer

The late Mr. T.W.H. Tolbort, B.C.S

Some Romano-British relics found at Max Gate, Dorchester

Thomas Hardy at Max Gate

The Rev. William Barnes, B.D

Fine passages in verse and prose

Assistance to Barnes biography

Speaking from the bench

The profitable reading of fiction

Assistance to R.R. Bowker

The Waterloo ball

Notes to Philip Henry Gosse's Dorset reminiscence

In support of Henry Vizetelly

How authors write

Memorial to Wilkie Collins

A British Theater Libre

Candour in English fiction

The art of authorship

Inspired paragraph on Mrs. Jeune's holiday fund

Inspired paragraph on lines for Ada Rehan

Co-signed defence of Harper and Brothers

The science of fiction

The merry wives of Wessex

The state recognition of authors

Assistance to Revd W. Miles Barnes

New Year's greeting to American women

Partially inspired review of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Responses to questionnaire on US copyright

Inspired letter about Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Inspired paragraph on Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Columbus album

List of autobiographical dates

A professorial university for London

Mr. Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, senior

Memoiral leaflet for Thomas Hardy, senior

Shelley memorial fund

Why I don't write plays

The American editions of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Fame's tribute to children

Inspired paragraphs in the Bookman

Dorchester street-naming

Authorized remarks on family background

A question of priority

A plea for a revived pilgrimage

Contrainte et liberte

Testimonial for A.P. Watt

Methods of authors

The tree of knowledge

The hon. Mrs. Henniker

The duchy of Cornwall and Mr. Thomas Hardy

Canadian copyright

Speech at Omar Khayyam club dinner

Hearts insurgent

Hymns that have helped

Sources of The Trumpet-Major

Assistance to Anges Grove

Assistance to Bertram Windle's guidebooks

R.L. Stevenson memorial fund

Who's who entry, 1897

The well-beloved

Inspired comment on New York staging of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

The disappearance of an Englishman at Zermatt

The best scenery I know

Autograph quotation in notables of Britain

The Wessex society of Manchester

The discount on books

Assistance to Dorset guidebook

Mr. George Meredith

To Dr. Henrik Ibsen

A plea for the horses

British authors on French literature

On Stonehenge

Misrepresented message on Dreyfus affair

Favourite books of 1899

Revision of article in Folk-Lore

A Christmas ghost story

The sphere

Tess at the Coronet theatre

Obituary for Laurence W. Pike

The American National Red Cross Society

Assistance to William Barnes Entry in DNB

Revision to Chamber's encyclopedia entry

Revisions to William Archer interview

Honorary membership of the Whitefriars club

The curse of militarism

Speech to the Whitefriars club

The view from Richmond Hill

Abolition of the royal buckhounds

Assistance to Clive Holland

The beauty of Wessex

On fordington St. George

Inspired statement in literature?

On Christmas at the Mermaid

The abbey gate house, Cerne Abbas, Dorset

Victor Hugo

The Wessex of Thomas Hardy

M. Maeterlinck's apology for nature

Edmund Kean in Dorchester

Maeterlinck and the censor

La litterature anglaise et al guerre du Sud-Africain

Contribution to Haggard's Rural England

Assistance to hardy entry in the encyclopedia Britannica

On the first number of T.P.'s Weekly

Recollections of "leader scott"

Favourite books of 1902

The decay of the novel

On capital punishment

Serial rights in stories

Inspired paragraphs on the Dynasts 1

Inspired paragraphs on the Dynasts 2

The Dynasts: a rejoinder. The Dynasts: a postscript

Message to the rationalist press association

The cruelty of blood sports

La France est-elle en decadence

Death notice for Jemima Hardy

Obituary for Jemima Hardy

Supplement to obiturary for Jemima Hardy

Inspired paragraph about Jemima Hardy 1

Inspired paragraph about Hardy cottage

Inspired paragraph about Jemima Hardy 2

Inspired paragraph about Jemima Hardy 3

Tolstoy on war

On modern idealism

First meeting of the Dorset men in London

Message to the Wessex society of Mancheser

Laurence Hope

Will Maxim Gorkey be hanged?

Disclaimer of Smithard interview

Disclaimer of Smithard interview 2

Motto for society of Dorset men in London

Vice-presidency of Dorset men in London

Aberdeen honorary degree

Birthday dinner for Frederick Greenwood

Far from the madding crowd: a correction

Draft paragraph supplied to the Sphere

Contributions to Hermann Lea's Handbook

Introduction to Tyndale exhibition catalogue

Unpublished preface to the posthumous poems of Laurence Hope

Dorchester sewage works

Speech to the institute of journalists

The commemoration of Crabbe

Foreword

Anglo-German relations

Inspired paragraphs on part two of The Dynasts

H.J.M.: some memories and letters

On the Jewish territorial organization

A glimpse of John Stuart Mill

Memories of church restoration

Message to Dorchester visit of society of Dorset men

Keats-Shelley memorial

Inspired statement on Wessex locations

A commission on spelling reform

Memorial to the duma

A tower for Holy Trinity church

Recollections of Leslie Stephen

Assistance to H.W. Nevinson

Entry in Dorset directory

Henry Mills Alden

Obituary paragraphs on the Revd Thomas Perkins

Snake feeding at the zoo

Opinion on Japan

On Adelphi terrace

The censorship of plays

Forewords

Inspired paragraph on The Dynasts part third

Mr. Meredith's birthday

George Meredith

Addition to promotional leaflet for The Dynasts

Dorest in London

The Tolstoy Jubilee

Maumbury ring

Louis Napoleon and the poet Barnes

Preface

Messina earthquake message

Testimonial for Harry Pouncy

The Poe centenary

Unattributed comment on drama and the novel

Notes on Stinsford church

On the death of Meredith

The dramatic censorship

An age of freedom

Speech on dramatization of Far from the Madding Crowd

Vivisection

Mr. Hardy's poems

Inspired paragraphs on family background

Mr. Hardy's swinburne poem

The moral rights of animals

Nature's indifference to justice

Edited article on his 70th birthday

Letter to the Freethinker

Lloyd's sixpenny Dickens

On retiring as president of the Dorset men in London

Speech on receiving the freedom of the borough

Some old-fashioned Psalm-tunes associated with the country of Dorset

The English review and the Spectator

Unattributed report on Puddletown Church

Mr.

Thomas Hardy as witness

Anonymus correction of misstatements

Assistance to Saxelby's Hardy Dictionary

Note on The Distracted Preacher

Charles Dickens

On Greenhill Pond

Against the use of armed airships

How shall we solve the divorce problem?

William Dean Howells at seventy-five

The blood accusation in Russia

A plea for pure English

Authors and their victims

Supplement to obituary of Emma Lavinia Hardy

Death notices for Emma Lavinia Hardy

On Funk and Wagnall's dictionary

The conditions of lasting peace

Apology for not meeting Canadian teachers

Assistance to Hermann Lea's Hardy's Wessex

On Sudermann's The Song of Songs

The painless slaughtering of animals

Tribute to Anatole France

Performing animals

Marriage notices

On Nietzsche

Which is the best short poem in English?

Britain's destiny and duty

Rheims cathedral

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales' national relief fund

Notes on the lesser-known characters in The Dynasts

Mr. Hardy on Nietzsche: a reply to critics

List of publications for the authors club of New York

Address and presentation to Mr. Robert Ross

Praise for William Watson Sonnet

The war and literature

Two translations for The Book of France

Obiturary for Frank George

Death notice for Frank George

Support for allied war aims statement

Message for The Times recruiting supplement

Synopsis for Far from the Madding crowd film

Commentaries on illustrations to autograph edition

Death of Miss Mary Hardy

Death notices for Mary Hardy

On reading good books

Manifesto of friendship to Spain

Which is the finest view in Dorset?

Explanation of the rural scenes from The Dynasts

Hardy play for red cross

Speech for Florence Hardy at Weymouth Performances of Wessex Scenes

Support for the Cambridge Magazine

Remarkable appeal to the cabinet

Committee for an intellectual entente

Speech on Wessex scenes written by Mrs. Hanbury

Speech on Wessex scenes written by Lady Ilchster

Reported remarks on Poundbury burials

Renewed support for the Cambridge Magazine

Shakespeare monument in Rome

Support for university education in South-West England. The harper centennial

The best age

Speech following performance of The Mellstock Quire

Inspired paragraph on Spoon River anthology

Appeal for Mrs. Allhusen's canteens

Message to American editors

Footnote to a Swinburne letter

William Barnes

Message to the Aussies

Association with Clarte

Trade unionism

Unsigned letter on the plumage trade

Mr. Gosse's 70th birthday

On the Canadian Bookman

Speech at opening of children's hospital

Christmas books

Speech on opening the Mellstock club

To the editor of The Old Cambridge

Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people

To the Cambridge vice-chancellor

Prefatory note

Inspired article on The Return of the Native as play

On international diarmament

Re-instatment of slade professorship

British

Proposed university for Wessex

Introductory note

A league of thinkers

Speech opening Dorchester hospital fete

Support for Magna Charta day

Mr. Frederic Harrison's 90th birthday

Inspired letter on the Grey Squirrel

Peace and goodwill

Tolstoy's works

On slaughterhouse reform

Negative response to Chapbook questionnaire

Horace moule

Notes on Professor Chew's book

Alderman J.C. Webber's 80th birthday

Testimonial to arts league of service

Robert Louis Stevenson

Message for Federation Interalliee des Anciens Combattants

Dorchester dramatic society

Message to the PEN club

Tanks at Lulworth cove

Mr. Thomas Hardy and R.L.S

Assistance to reviewer of Queen of Cornwall production

Message to the Transatlantic review

Sir Walter Raleigh memorial fund

Facsimile quotation for British Legion Album

On rabbit-coursing and stag-hunting

On the old theatre in Dorchester

The Byron centenary: a practical suggestion

Mr. Thomas Hardy and Weymouth

Byron and the abbey

Conditions for performance of Tess play

Message to The Bermondsey Book

Ronsard Centenary

Speech between performances of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Corrections to J.H. Fowler introductions

Speech to Dorchester debating and dramatic society

Inspired letter about Ernest Brennecke's biography

Animals' welfare week

Message to Ramsay MacDonald

Renewed support for University of Wessex

Future of British films

Revision of Harold Child's Thomas Hardy

Revision to Utermeyer's Modern British poetry

Golden wedding message to Edmund Gosse

The cerne giant

Intended tribute to Romain Rolland

Tess of the d'Urbervilles re-serialized

The Saturday review

Tribute to William Watkins

London message on cruel sports

Assistance to word-lore

A Blake Memorial in St. Paul's

New Shakespear theatre

An appeal from Dorset

Hopkins's Thomas Hardy and his folk

Fate of Waterloo bridge

The dram of eale

Undergraduates from overseas

To the citizens of Weymouth, Massachusetts

Intended protest against banning of broadcast by Shaw

Country dances and the college hornpipe

Truro message and cruel sports

Message to Bournemouth branch, national union of journalists

Commemoration dinner of King's college

Wessex University scheme

Taunton message on cruel sports

The preservation of ancient cottages

Message to The Countryman

Visit of South Africian Farmers'

On laying the commemoration stone of the new Dorchester grammar school

English country dances

On writing poems

G.M.: a reminiscence

Preface for French translation of The Dynasts

Recommendation for Tarka the Otter

Final who's who entry.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-187030-7