Hardy
Hardy names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hardy THOMAS, an novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, an novelist; born in Dorset, England, June 2, 1840. He was brought up as an architect, and practiced some time at Dorchester, next prosecuted his studies in design at London, gaining professional distinction. His intention was now to become an art critic, but the experiment of a not wholly unsuccessful work of fiction, "Desperate Remedies" (1871), shaped his destiny otherwise. His next novels, "Under the Greenwood Tree" (1872) and "A Pair of Blue Eyes" (1873), prepared the way for his first great work, "Far from the Madding Crowd," published in the "Cornhill Magazine" in 1874. Its immediate success secured its author an audience for a series of novels: "The Hand of Ethelberta" (1876); "The Return of the Native" (1878); "The Trumpet-major" (1880); "A Laodicean" (1881); "Two on a Tower" (1882); "The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886); "The Woodlanders" (1887); "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (1891); and "Jude the Obscure" (1895); "Wessex Tales" (1888); "A 66 Group of Noble Dames" (1891); "Life's Little Ironies" (1894); "The Three Wayfarers" (1893); "Wessex Poems" (1898); "Times' Laughing Stock" (1910); "Satires of Circumstance" (1915); "The Dynasts," etc.
Hardy ARTHUR SHERBURNE, an American novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTHUR SHERBURNE, an American novelist; born in Andover, Mass., Aug. 13, 1847. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy and commanded a military post in the South for two years. His poetry consists mainly of lyrics and sonnets, while his novels are full of interest and In charm. He was a skilled musician. 1897 he was appointed minister to Persia. "But Yet a Woman" and "The Wind of Destiny" and "Passe Rose" represent his earlier style. His later novels include: "His Daughter First" (1903); "Aurelie" (1912); "Diane and Her Friends" (1914); "No. 13 Rue du Bon Diable" (1917). His poems were published in numerous magazines, and some of his mathematical studies took shape in a volume on "Quaternions." "Songs of Two" appeared in 1900. English
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 Thomas Hardy was still alive, 81 years old and living at Max Gate; he died on 11 January 1928, after which his ashes were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey and his heart, by his own wish, at Stinsford in Dorset. Collier's treats him chiefly as the novelist of "Far from the Madding Crowd" with the verse as an afterthought, but the balance has since reversed: after the hostile reception of "Jude the Obscure" in 1895 he wrote no more novels, and the poems, swelled by "Human Shows" (1925) and the posthumous "Winter Words" (1928), now make him one of the most influential English poets of the century, claimed as a master by Auden and Larkin. His "Wessex" is today a tourist landscape and Tess and Jude are fixtures of school and university syllabuses. Arthur Sherburne Hardy, the American novelist and mathematician given equal billing here, died in 1930 and is now almost entirely unread.
Written for this edition, 2026.