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THOMAS HARDY'S 'FACTS' NOTEBOOK

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From: The Spectator
Date: 20041120
Author:Edelsten, David

THOMAS HARDY'S 'FACTS' NOTEBOOK edited by William Greenslade Ashgate (Tel: 01252 351855), £49.50, pp. 365, ISBN 1840142359

The bad old times recorded

The inconsistency between how they lived their own lives - the sort of people that they seemed to be - and the virtues they championed in their heroes and heroines, so much greater in male than in female authors (from which category I exclude George Eliot) is possibly nowhere more marked than in the case of Thomas Hardy. The creator of Marty South, Giles Winterborne and Gabriel Oak was himself a stinker.

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