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.” ...

A Neolithic site discovered under author Thomas Hardy’s house has been protected as a scheduled monument. The circular ...

Thomas Hardy's retreat from the madding crowds: Photos reveal great novelist's Dorset tour of the real-life locations that he wrote into his books ...

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: ...