In Thomas Hardy’s novel The Woodlanders, the trees sing. Hardy’s exploration of the relationship between humans and trees resonates in an epoch of environmental catastrophe.

A review of Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man, the new biography of the 19th century poet and novelist by Claire Tomalin. Tomalin has distinguished herself in the field of literary biography by her ...

In a lifetime that spanned the early Victorian period and the aftermath of the First World War, Hardy witnessed huge changes: the mechanisation of farming, the rapid growth of cities, the ...

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 this ...

A complex romance is the centerpiece of this absorbing drama, based on the Thomas Hardy novel. In late 19th-century rural England, class barriers threaten to rip apart the love between a woodsman ...

A group of literature enthusiasts are travelling across Dorset this summer to tell the tales of Thomas Hardy’s lesser-known fictional treasures. Dorchester's New Hardy Players are back to take a new ...