Thomas Hardy penned eight beautiful novels that can traverse heartbreak with a rare, intense depth and emotional honesty, ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” ...

Right: A portrait of Thomas Hardy by Reginal Grenville from 1923. Courtesy Dorset Museum & Art Gallery/Dorset History Centre. Left: The front of Max Gate, Dorset.

Thomas Hardy, the novelist, writes to The Dorset (England) County Chronicle in remembrance of Mrs. Baxter, known as Leader Scott," who died Nov. 10 in Florence: ...

A Neolithic site discovered under author Thomas Hardy’s house has been protected as a scheduled monument. The circular enclosure is almost 100 metres in diameter and is made up of ditches and pits.

A Neolithic site discovered under author Thomas Hardy’s house has been protected as a scheduled monument. The circular enclosure, which is almost 100 metres in diameter, was found under the ...