Prologue
1: Hardys and Hands
2: Bockhampton
3: Dorchester
4: London
5: The Poor Man and the Lady
6: St Juliot
7: Far From the Madding Crowd
8: Marriage
9: Sturminster Newton
10: The Return of the Native
11: Illness
12: Return to Dorchester
13: Max Gate
14: The Woodlanders
15: The Writing of Tess
16: The Publication of Tess
17: Florence Henniker
18: The Making of Jude
19: The Publication of Jude
20: Keeping Separate
21: Pessimistic Meliorist
22: The Dynasts
23: After the Visit
24: A Funeral
25: A Second Marriage
26: Life-Writing
27: Tea at Max Gate
28: Plays and Players
29: Last Things
30: Afterwards
Michael Millgate was born in Hampshire, studied at the universities
of Cambridge, Michigan, and Leeds, and has now retired from the
University of Toronto as University Professor of English Emeritus.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal society
of Canada, he is best known for The Achievement of William Faulkner
(1966) and other studies of American literature and for his
extensive critical, biographical, and editorial work on Thomas
Hardy, begun with Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (1971,
reissued in 1994) and continued with Thomas Hardy: A Biography
(1982) and numerous scholarly editions of texts and documents. His
editing of Hardy's
ghost-written The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy (1985) prompted the
wider exploration of authorial wills and literary estates published
in 1992 as Testamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy.
`Review from previous edition The standard biography, indispensable
to all who covet the particulars of Hardy's life.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`By far the most detailed and comprehensive account of Hardy's
personal and literary life now available.'
Times Literary Supplement
The definitive work for a least a generation
`A splendid biography . . . Millgate is the kind of biographer who
writers dream of. He gives us all the necessary details, but none
of the gratuitous ones.'
New York Times
`There has been no better account of the genesis and production of
the novels, and of the magnitude of both the achievement and the
cost.'
New Statesman
`By its calm and judicial treatment of the new material, Millgate's
biography does credit to the integrity and judgement of all
concerned. . . . A superb work of scholarship.'
Listener
`Review from previous edition The standard biography, indispensable to all who covet the particulars of Hardy's life.' Times Higher Education Supplement `By far the most detailed and comprehensive account of Hardy's personal and literary life now available.' Times Literary Supplement The definitive work for a least a generation `A splendid biography . . . Millgate is the kind of biographer who writers dream of. He gives us all the necessary details, but none of the gratuitous ones.' New York Times `There has been no better account of the genesis and production of the novels, and of the magnitude of both the achievement and the cost.' New Statesman `By its calm and judicial treatment of the new material, Millgate's biography does credit to the integrity and judgement of all concerned. . . . A superb work of scholarship.' Listener
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