HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H9890 12/13/98 "REVIEWER H.WILLIAMS QUESTION" ========================================================= Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:30:23 -0500 From: Shannon Rogers Subject: Biographical info. on Hardy reviewer Hello all, Since you were all so very helpful in my last question, I thought I'd try again. This one seems like the greater challenge, so any help you can offer would be hugely appreciated. I am in need of some basic identifying information about Harold Williams, who wrote a review of "The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy" for the _North American Review_, January 1914, cxcix, 120-34. I have a footnote for the review, but I wanted to just add a bit of information about what else he did and what gave him the authority to comment upon Hardy. I believe he's an American, so the DNB would be of no use. I can't find any books by him listed in library catalogues so far, or at least none that seem to be him. He doesn't seem to be wildly famous, so there's nothing even in encyclopedias. Any ideas? Thanks and cheers, Shannon Rogers Department of History Penn State University ========== From: enl090@abdn.ac.uk Subject: Re: Biographical info. on Hardy reviewer On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:30:23 -0500 Shannon Rogers wrote: Hello again Shannon Harold Williams wrote _Modern English Writers: Being a Study of Imaginative Literature 1890-1914_ 3rd ed. (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1925). He also wrote 'Thomas Hardy (1840)', in _Two Centuries of the English Novel_ (London: Smith, Elder, 1911), pp. 283-303, and 'The Passage of the Centuries', _Outlines of Modern English Literature, 1890-1914_ (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1920), pp. 66-73. With regard to these last two books, I don't know whether Williams wrote the whole of them or just the individual chapters cited (I suspect the former). Hope this helps Martin Ray ------------ Dr Martin Ray Department of English University of Aberdeen Aberdeen Scotland, UK m.ray@abdn.ac.uk ==========