Thomas Hardy Remembered

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1 Thomas Hardy Remembered MARTIN RAY University of Aberdeen, UK ASHGATE

2 Contents General Editor s Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Thomas Hardy: A Chronology xi xiii xv xvii Introduction 1 PART ONE INTERVIEWS 'Hodge'As I Know Him 7 Tess and Angel - Raymond Blathwayt 11 Representative Men at Home: Mr Thomas Hardy at Max Gate 17 An Evening with Thomas Hardy - Frederick Dolman 21 Real Conversations - William Archer 28 'I Often Wish I Had Lived in the Middle Ages' - W. Smithard 38 PART TWO HARDY'S BOYHOOD Hardy as a Schoolboy - 'P.' 43 Hardy's Boy's Own Book - Philip Brooks 44 Hardy's Model Ship - John Masefield 45 A Childhood Sweetheart - Walter de la Mare 46 PART THREE COURTSHIP Some Recollections - Emma Hardy 51 Emma's 'Fine' Decision - Eden Phillpotts 54 PART FOUR IN THE EIGHTIES Anything But an Author - Bret Harte 59 'Two Pleasant Friends' - R.R. Bowker 60 Hardy at Abbotsford - Sir George Douglas 61

3 vi Thomas Hardy Remembered Far from the Madding Crowd - Alice Carr 65 Hardy's New Home - Edmund Gosse 66 Hardy at Max Gate 67 Hardy and William Barnes - Edmund Gosse 73 'Small and Unassuming' - James Russell Lowell 74 'Ephemeridae, We Men' - Frank Harris 75 R.L.S - Edmund Gosse 78 PART FIVE THE NINETIES 'Compliments in One's Old Age!' - Eliza Lynn Linton 81 'The Most Winning Literary Man' - W. Robertson Nicoll 82 Guests in a Country-House - Sir George Douglas 83 Thomas Hardy - Ford Madox Ford 86 Hardy in London - Israel Zangwill 88 Joseph Chamberlain and Genealogy - William H. Rideing 91 Hardy and The Woodlanders - Rebekah Owen 93 Hardy Went Out 'To be Rid of Her!' - Gertrude Atherton 94 'Getting Rather Deaf and More Depressed' - T.P. O'Connor 96 The First Mrs Thomas Hardy - Gordon Gifford 98 I Suspected Her of Writing the Famous Novels - Frederick B. Fisher 99 'Misery in his Marriage' - George Gissing 100 'He Has a Very Foolish Wife' - George Gissing 102 'I'll Never Write Another Novel' - Henry Rider Haggard 103 Emma and Jude the Obscure - Alfred Sutro 104 Authors and I - Charles Lewis Hind 105 'I Find It Impossible to Believe It Will Ever Be Fine Again' - Bertram C A. Windle 106 Hardy Blights Trees - Sir J.G. Frazer 108 Always in Fear of Being Assailed - William Rothenstein 109 Hardy and Rudyard Kipling - Charles Carrington 110 'I Am Afraid of New York' - Hamlin Garland 111 PART SIX A Backward Glance - Edith Wharton 115 A Cheerful Pessimist - Arthur Symons 116 'Not at Home' - William Lyon Phelps 117 A Novel Should Always be a Story - William Lyon Phelps 118 'Never Shut the Gate on Fact' - Ralph D. Blumenfeld 119 Forty Years in My Bookshop - Walter T. Spencer 121 Hardy's Imitation of a Field Worker - Alfred Noyes 123 'Tess Was a Very Good Milch-cow' - James Gibson 124

4 Contents vii Hardy and the Hangman - Henry Woodd Nevinson 125 Hardy and the Immanent Will - Sir Henry Newbolt 127 Hardy and Henry James - Arthur Benson 128 His Twilight View of Life - George Meredith 129 The Hangman's Cottage - Evelyn Sharp 130 A Gravestone - James Milne 133 'Little Appreciation of Other Men's Work' - Morley Roberts 134 'Family Murdered with a Penknife' - Henry Woodd Nevinson 135 Thomas Hardy: The Writer - Desmond MacCarthy 13 7 'Do You Tell Them Your Ideas?' - A.L. Rowse 139 'Don't Make Him Look Miserable!' - Jacques-Emile Blanche 140 ' That Grey Little Man?' - Joshua Harris 142 Hardy Lived Quite Out of Himself- Constance Smedley 145 Cakes and Ale - Somerset Maugham 147 'I Did Not Kill Her. It Was Fated' - Henry Van Dyke 148 'I'm Glad He's So Nice' - Rupert Brooke 149 'There is Death in the Air' - Arthur Compton Rickett 150 The Last Words of Jude the Obscure - Netta Syrett 152 Hardy and Oscar Wilde - Mrs Belloc Lowndes 154 'The Best Piece of Prose Fiction I Ever Wrote' - Walter Peirce 157 Hardy in Downing Street - John Morgan 159 Tea with Thomas Hardy - Hugh Walpole 160 Reminiscences of Thomas Hardy: I - Frank A. Hedgcock 161 Reminiscences of Thomas Hardy: II - Frank A. Hedgcock 163 'I Only Saw Her That Once' - Clive Holland 166 The 'Dorchester Plays': Some Personal Reminiscences - S.R.L. 168 'And How Is Johnny's Whooping-Cough?' - Douglas Goldring 170 PART SEVEN Mr Thomas Hardy and his Home - 'A Wessex Man' 173 The Portrait of a Chinese Sage - John Masefield 174 Hardy and W.B. Yeats - James Stephens 175 Hardy's Gold Medal - Sir Henry Newbolt 176 Emma's Last Party - Lady Winifred Fortescue 178 Thomas Hardy at Home 180 Hardy the Obscure - James Lewis 182 Some Personal Recollections - S.M. Ellis 186 More Applause Than Anyone - Sydney Cockerell 188 A Woman Poet Laureate - E. V. Lucas 189 Hardy at Cambridge - Arthur Benson 190 Hardy Thought The Dynasts His Greatest Work - Ellen Glasgow 192 The Great War - Arnold Bennett 194

5 viii Thomas Hardy Remembered PART EIGHT 'LIFE'S DECLINE': Days with Thomas Hardy - Elliott Felkin 199 Glimpses of Thomas Hardy - Llewelyn Powys 211 'A Rather Sad Anniversary' - Florence Hardy 212 Hardy's First Novel - Edmund Gosse 213 When I Met Thomas Hardy - G. V. McFadden 217 'If I Knew Hardy, I Would Give Him What For' - Robert Eugen Zachrisson 220 Youth and Age - Katharine Adams 222 My Visit to Thomas Hardy - W.M. Parker 223 Nobody Less Like a Peasant - St John Ervine 228 Hardy the Peasant - W.M. Parker 230 Walks and Talks with Thomas Hardy - Newman Flower 231 Hardy's Wit and Wisdom - Edmund Gosse 233 Florence Felt No Jealousy of Emma - Howard Bliss 234 The Dynasts in Oxford - Charles Morgan 235 Hardy and Drama - Gertrude Bugler 237 PART NINE 'I LOOKED BACK': 'I Shouldn't Write That Now' - Albert A. Cock 241 Thomas Hardy at Max Gate - Cynthia Asquith 243 Hardy and Katherine Mansfield - John Middleton Murry 247 'A Face Like an English Pippin' - H.J. Massingham 248 The Great Victorian - Edward Blunden 249 In his Wessex Home - Newman Flower 254 Does T.H. Enjoy Life? - John Masefield 258 Mr Hardy and the Church - J.H. Morgan 259 Dear Old Thomas Hardy - Max Beerbohm 261 'We Don't Drop Our Aitches' - Augustus John 262 'One Must Write Poems with One's Own Hand' - Harry Furniss 263 Thomas Hardy's Birthplace - Hamlin Garland 265 A Visit to Mr Thomas Hardy - Roy D. McNutt 271 'One Hears His Everyday Voice' - Siegfried Sassoon 272 Recollections of Thomas Hardy - Thomas D. Soundy 273 Florence was his Inspiration - Alfred Tresidder Sheppard 275 Hardy Meets a Demoralizing Influence - J.C. Squire 276 Rehearsing Tess - Florence Hardy 278 The Hardy Players - Hadland Davis 279 J.M. Barrie Remembers 280 An Hour with Thomas Hardy - Frederic Lefevre 282 Hardy's Morning Walk - Robert Pakenham 287 Recollections of Thomas Hardy - Llewelyn Powys 288

6 Contents ix 'I Want to be Remembered as a Poet' - Arthur Compton Rickett 290 Memorabilia 292 PART TEN 'THE LAST SCENE': The Diary of Virginia Woolf - Virginia Woolf 295 He Must Be Heard With Respect 301 Hardy and France - Pierre D'Exideuil 302 The Planets - Gustav Hoist 305 'I Never Saw So Attractive a Man of His Age' - Ellen Glasgow 306 Hardy at 87 - Edmund Gosse 307 A Meeting With Hardy Was Comforting To Self-Esteem - H.M. Tomlinson 308 'It's a Great Many Years Since I Played Cricket, But...' - J.C. Squire 310 Everyman Remembers - Ernest Rhys 313 PART ELEVEN 'A DEATH-DAY RECALLED' The Night of Hardy's Death - Newman Flower 317 Kindly Charm 318 Hardy in his Coffin - David More 319 Hardy's Ashes - Sydney Cockerell 320 Index 321