Michael Millgate is a highly distinguished Hardyan, whose many scholarly works include Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (1972); the acclaimed life Thomas Hardy: A Biography (Oxford, 1982); estamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy (Oxford, 1992); [with Richard L. Purdy] editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (7 volumes, Oxford 1978-88); editor of Thomas Hardy: Selected Letters (Oxford, 1990) and Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy (Oxford 1996).

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Editorial Procedures ; THE TEXTS (1856-1927) ; Appendix: Hardy the Memorialist ; Index

This collection of "public utterances" by a writer conventionally assumed to have guarded his privacy to the point of fastidiousness is an invaluable addition to the outstanding body of scholarship that Michael Millgate has contributed to Hardy studies over the many years during which he has been transforming them.

Michael Millgate is a highly distinguished Hardyan, whose many scholarly works include Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (1972); the acclaimed life Thomas Hardy: A Biography (Oxford, 1982); estamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy (Oxford, 1992); [with Richard L. Purdy] editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (7 volumes, Oxford 1978-88); editor of Thomas Hardy: Selected Letters (Oxford, 1990) and Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy (Oxford 1996).

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Editorial Procedures ; THE TEXTS (1856-1927) ; Appendix: Hardy the Memorialist ; Index

This collection of "public utterances" by a writer conventionally assumed to have guarded his privacy to the point of fastidiousness is an invaluable addition to the outstanding body of scholarship that Michael Millgate has contributed to Hardy studies over the many years during which he has been transforming them.

Michael Millgate is a highly distinguished Hardyan, whose many scholarly works include Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (1972); the acclaimed life Thomas Hardy: A Biography (Oxford, 1982); estamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy (Oxford, 1992); [with Richard L. Purdy] editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy (7 volumes, Oxford 1978-88); editor of Thomas Hardy: Selected Letters (Oxford, 1990) and Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy (Oxford 1996).

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Editorial Procedures ; THE TEXTS (1856-1927) ; Appendix: Hardy the Memorialist ; Index

This collection of "public utterances" by a writer conventionally assumed to have guarded his privacy to the point of fastidiousness is an invaluable addition to the outstanding body of scholarship that Michael Millgate has contributed to Hardy studies over the many years during which he has been transforming them.