Thomas Hardy penned eight beautiful novels that can traverse heartbreak with a rare, intense depth and emotional honesty, ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” ...

In 1912, when he was 72, Thomas Hardy began to write a series of love poems about his wife, Emma. The poems were unlikely for several reasons. First, for years he and Emma had been estranged, and ...

Thomas Hardy died in 1928; Florence Hardy succumbed to the cancer she feared in 1937. Gertrude Bugler, after a happy life in the country with her husband and child, died at age 95 in 1992.

In the summer of 1926, Thomas Hardy was visited at his house in Dorset by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, she being "the daughter of his old editor Leslie Stephen." Hardy, Claire Tomalin reports in ...

A Neolithic site discovered under author Thomas Hardy’s house has been protected as a scheduled monument. The circular ...

In the most haunting episode in Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” (1874), the inquisitive heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, pries open the coffin of her romantic rival, Fanny Robin, to ...

Right: A portrait of Thomas Hardy by Reginal Grenville from 1923. Courtesy Dorset Museum & Art Gallery/Dorset History Centre. Left: The front of Max Gate, Dorset.

IDEAS What Thomas Hardy knew about the unknowable We may never know what went wrong with the Titan submersible. A 111-year old poem about the Titanic can help us come to terms with that.