Hardy women : mother, sisters, wives, muses / Paula Byrne.

Byrne, Paula, author

London : William Collins, 2025.

656 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2024.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

How was it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women? In this innovative book, biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century. Paula Byrne reveals that it is through hardy women that we can enter into the heart of the great novelist and poet.

9780008322298 (pbk)

823.8

PR4757.W6

823.8

English

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