which was once frequented by renowned literary figures including Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. If you’re after a picture-perfect chocolate box cottage, you can’t ...

Led by Carole Brown, a BSL volunteer, it will introduce visitors to the house that Hardy built in ... officer at the National Trust, said: “Thomas Hardy has such strong cultural associations ...

Barnes was friends with fellow Dorset bigwig Thomas Hardy, who would sometimes work in the house, which helped established it as a must-visit for any passing literary titan. It is this that makes ...

Now, as a result of two decades of research that combines architectural and literary criticism, this book provides a ground-breaking ‘reading’ of Thomas Hardy’s work – the renowned novelist and poet ...

Thomas was born on the Island of Jersey in the Channel Islands on 13th September 1666, son of John Le Hardy, solicitor general of the island. As well as his naval service he was also Member of ...