The life and work of Thomas Hardy – Thomas Hardy Uitverkoop

One of the literary world’s great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances of its composition have been known The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published over the name of Florence Emily Hardy, has frequently been referred to as Hardy’s autobiography. But this is not the whole Florence altered much of what Hardy meant to appear in his ‘biography’. Through careful examination of pr…