We've been recording and watching Dorset: County and Coast on Channel 5 not because we particularly like the county - although we do - but because we knew that a friend of ours was going to appear in an episode. We became friends while spending an afternoon drinking real ale in a microbrewery a few years back. Tracy finally turned up in episode 4 this week, sharing her passion for Thomas Hardy.

https://www.channel5.com/show/dorset-country-and-coast/season-1/episode-4

#Dorset #ThomasHardy #DorsetCountyAndCoast

Blog updated with a post about how #CharlesDickens and #ThomasHardy used the figures of Lady Dedlock ('Bleak House') and 'Tess' of the D'Urbevilles to look at how women who had children outside of marriage were treated in #VictorianEngland https://bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2023/07/lady-dedlock-from-bleak-house-v-tess.html

Today's poem:

The Convergence of the Twain
- by Thomas Hardy

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/720995900422504448/the-convergence-of-the-twain?source=share

#titanic
#poetry #ThomasHardy #shipwreck #significance #history #vainglory #wealth #hubris

Have written some thoughts about Martha Brown, hanged in Dorchester in 1856 for the murder of her husband . A 16 year old Thomas Hardy watched the execution and towards the end of his life started to enquire more about her conviction. Image of the Shire Hall Museum courtroom copyright held by folio creative #19thcentury.#Thomashardy, #justiceforwomen, https://bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2023/06/elizabeth-martha-brown-executed-9th.html

Have written some thoughts about Martha Brown, hanged in Dorchester in 1856 for the murder of her husband . A 16 year old Thomas Hardy watched the execution and towards the end of his life started to enquire more about her conviction. Image of the Shire Hall Museum courtroom copyright held by folio creative #19thcentury.#Thomashardy, #justiceforwomen, https://bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2023/06/elizabeth-martha-brown-executed-9th.html

Am just getting started on one of the few Thomas Hardy novels I haven't read before. This cover is really quite something. Definitely...of an age.
#Books #Reading #ThomasHardy #Bookstodon

Here's an amazing bit of literary trivia: Thomas Hardy drove himself to Marble Arch to see a movie adaptation of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."

#thomashardy #tess #movies

Today's poem:

The Faithful Swallow
- by Thomas Hardy

https://at.tumblr.com/ukdamo/the-faithful-swallow/25ok15926llh

#poetry #ThomasHardy #love #lost #pain #relationship #summer #winter #analogy #metaphor #symbol #swallow

RT @ArtHannah73
#thomashardy #literature #quote

@bsmall2@misskey.cloud
> And you, my brother, of another flag
Join with us without borders or delay
Do not go gentle to a deadly scene

#DavidSwanson got me to a #ThomasHardy poem:

> "I shot him dead because —
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although

> "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like — just as I —
Was out of work — had sold his traps —
No other reason why.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44329/the-man-he-killed

daily VW: the time #VirginiaWoolf got #ThomasHardy to sign a book for her and he misspelled her name as 'Wolff'

'We can't go far now, [Mrs. Hardy] said, though we do walk every day, because our dog isn't able to walk far. He bites, she told us. She became more natural and animated about the dog, who is evidently the real centre of her thoughts. [...]

'Hardy took my Life's Little Ironies off, and trotted back with it signed, and Woolf spelt Wolff, which I daresay had given him some anxiety.'

@ValBHart I have got to reread Thomas Hardy. I loved how everyone you met in the beginning came back at the end: full circle. I also just loved the names. Farmer Oak has been in my life forever. #ThomasHardy #Literature

I still don’t like #ThomasHardy
#LitStudies #literature #BritLit @litstudies

tonight's read...one of the things i like about Victorian writers is how their constrictive environment forced them to develop a gift for subtlety--a sidelong approach VW said 'allows one to slip in things that would be inaudible if one marched straight up and spoke out loud.' in Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), Thomas Hardy shows us the horror of a murder scene using nothing more than a spot on the ceiling.

#books #reading #writing #bookstadon #ThomasHardy

I'm not sold on the tacky fotoromanzo-style cover of my copy of A PAIR OF BLUE EYES (1873). And it's not my favourite Thomas Hardy novel. But still, I did enjoy it. The novel is famed for originating the term #Cliffhanger: chance, coincidence, and heart in mouth moments make for a gripping & ultimately sad & tragic story. It's always a melancholy pleasure reading #ThomasHardy, who #DOTD 11 January 1928.

#Books #Literature #Bookstodon

Ready for another #poem? This week's post on my blog is about Thomas Hardy's "Winter in Durnover Field".

It's an interesting one, as it's written as a sort of mini-play featuring three characters: a rook, a starling, and a pigeon.

As always, the post includes a #vocabulary exercise for #ESL learners, along with a few notes & comments.

https://grammaticus.blog/2023/01/11/hardy-winter/

#EnglishLiterature #EnglishTeacher #LearningEnglish
#ThomasHardy
#Winter #Poetry #Birds

I'm not sold on the tacky fotoromanzo-style cover of my copy of A PAIR OF BLUE EYES (1873). And it's not my favourite Thomas Hardy novel. But still, I did enjoy it. The novel is famed for originating the term #cliffhanger: chance, coincidence & heart in mouth moments make for a gripping & ultimately sad & tragic story. It's always a melancholy pleasure reading #ThomasHardy, who #DOTD 11 January 1928.

#Books #Literature #Bookstodon

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast

Muriel Herbert, Thomas Hardy, James Gilchrist & David Owen Norris:
🎵 Faint heart in a railway train

#MurielHerbert #ThomasHardy #JamesGilchrist #DavidOwenNorris
#BBC3MusicBot

I just want Ken to make "Return of the native", which is the adaptation he always wanted to do. We've been waiting 30 years ffs. #kennethbranagh #thomashardy

The way the plot is constructed, this one has a sense of mystery for me, almost in the older, sacred sense, and I’m an American, so I don’t believe in the romance of the monarchy much!

#storyaday #thomashardy