Martin Ray

’Meticulous and highly detailed research..This study will obviously serve as a reference work for students of Hardy’s writing practice and his professional dealings with the literary marketplace.’ Nineteenth-Century Literature

• Contents: Introduction; Part One: Wessex Tales; Part Two: A Group of Noble Dames; Part Three: Life's Little Ironies; Part Four: A Changed Man and Other Tales.

Martin Ray

’Meticulous and highly detailed research..This study will obviously serve as a reference work for students of Hardy’s writing practice and his professional dealings with the literary marketplace.’ Nineteenth-Century Literature

• Contents: Introduction; Part One: Wessex Tales; Part Two: A Group of Noble Dames; Part Three: Life's Little Ironies; Part Four: A Changed Man and Other Tales.

Martin Ray

’Meticulous and highly detailed research..This study will obviously serve as a reference work for students of Hardy’s writing practice and his professional dealings with the literary marketplace.’ Nineteenth-Century Literature

• Contents: Introduction; Part One: Wessex Tales; Part Two: A Group of Noble Dames; Part Three: Life's Little Ironies; Part Four: A Changed Man and Other Tales.