HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE  H9975  11/30/99  "INTRODUCTIONS"
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From: "Daniels, Charles" <Charles.Daniels@mhmr.state.tx.us>
Subject: New Member
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:42:14 -0600


I have just join the Hardy list and have been looking for this list for some
time.  I am a Medical Records Administrator at a state mental Health
hospital in Kerrville, Texas. I read many of Hardy's major novels in High
School and am coming back to read him again; esp. the novels I have not
read. There is also a High School English teacher that I know who believes
that Hardy is a writer of the same stature as Shakespeare and has been
pushing me to read. 
Well, I am reading "A Pair of Blue Eyes" [chapter XXVIII at the moment] and
am discovering the joy of Hardy again. 

Charles Daniels
charles.daniels@mhmr.state.tx.us

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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 10:30:04 -0500
From: Diane Gurien <ninbus@bellatlantic.net>
Subject: Re: New Member

Charles:

I, also, am new to this Hardy group. I'm a medical editor from New Jersey.

I read one or two of his novels, also in high school, but have recently come
back to them with a gusto.  I'm currently reading a somewhat obscure novel, "A
Laodicean" which he wrote while recuperating from a serious illness.

I'm a fan of 19th-century British and French literature and, to me, Hardy is in
the Top Ten.

Diane
ninbus@bellatlantic.net

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