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100 1 $aPite, Ralph.
245 10 $aThomas Hardy :$bthe guarded life /$cRalph Pite.
260 $aLondon :$bPicador,$c2006.
300 $avii, 522 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), maps, portraits ;$c25 cm
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500 $aIll. on lining papers.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 501-505) and index.
520 1 $a"Few writers are as strongly associated with a particular place as Thomas Hardy. His role as unofficial historian of Wessex has come to define his reputation, yet it can only begin to accommodate the complexities of a man who cultivated aristocratic friends, spent several months each year in London and wrote some of the most popular, but also most vilified, novels of the Victorian period." "The Guarded Life challenges long-held views of Hardy. Did he spend all his early life in preparation for his career as a writer or was architecture more important to him than he later claimed? In his personal life, did his first wife, Emma, really trick him into marriage and was she the socially ambitious, unstable women her enemies have painted her as? And what of Florence, his second wife, who has so often been caricatured in her conflicted and passionate feelings for him?" "By examining the relationships and contexts that shaped Hardy most - the women, the friends and mentors, the career structures, the social and family pressures, and of course the Dorsetshire landscape itself - The Guarded Life reveals the personality and emotional life of a man who despite his fame has remained largely hidden." "Ralph Pite tracks Hardy through his hopes, successes, setbacks and several new departures. He discovers the sudden changes of plan in Hardy's life, the 'desperate remedies' in crises and the shifts in identity that came with changing professions, moving homes and increased fame. It is the first biography to disrupt the serene public image of himself that Hardy created during his long old age, uncovering instead a man who was more passionate and more impulsive than his reputation suggests, both more driven and more vulnerable."--Jacket.
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