HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0019 2/28/00 "FFMC PICTURES REQUEST" =================================================== From: KVANART@aol.com Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:48:33 EST Subject: Warren's Malthouse/Far From the Madding Crowd I am undertaking a cinematic design adaptation of FFMC and am very interested in the appearance of Warren's malthouse which I consider sort a thematic and structural hub of the novel ,the eye of the grand pastoral and dramatic hurricane if you will around which the story revolves, the ancient and sedentary malter being the absolute center . The reader's identification shifts from Oak to Bethsheba to Boldwood to Fanny Robin and Troy, but the marvelous laborers, the tillers of the land, as a rustic greek chorus, watch and comment humourously on all, and represent the land itself ,arguably the greatest character of the novel.The most sage and ancient of these is the malter,and the peering glowing orange window his "eye" so to speak. I'm fascinated by the place and given Hardy's method of developing a story from place with an architect's eye, am in search of images ,photograhic or illustrated of what that particular malt house may have looked like. Being a Virginian I'm only slightly aquainted with malt houses( I've become a fan of the ones in Kent) . I also wonder if there is a book on Hardy's architectural drawings sketches etc. I am an animator/actor /writer and delve also into architectural design, my grandfather being quite a prolific edwardian architect in VA and his father a grass roots builder/designer having learned his craft from Jeffersons men and associates, I guess my VA love of the land is a large source of my attraction to Hardy. /Keith Van Allen ========== Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:35:27 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: FFMC Pictures Dear Keith, Welcome to the HARDY-L Forum. Some time back I believe you requested a source for a picture of a tithe barn. Robert Schweik, Director of the TTHA LINKS page gave me the following information which I tried unsuccessfully to pass on to you. You might find what you are looking for this time if you go to the same link. You might also try Birgit Plietzsch's NOVELs page, which I know has some pictures on it as well. Good luck With Your Work Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu The most convenient source is "Thomas Hardy's World," our Links A 32. The address: >From the opening page, select "Enter Hardy's World"; from that page, select "Novels," and from that page, "Far from the Madding Crowd." This site provides two pictures of Waterston House and one of a Dorset Tithe Barn. ========== Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:24:04 -0500 From: jgould@andover.edu (John Gould) Subject: Re: FFMC Pictures Photgraphs of both the Waterstone House and the Tithe Barne at Cerne Abbas are also located on the Hardy Miscellany at http://www.andover.edu/english/hardymisc/photos_ffmc.html John ========== From: KVANART@aol.com Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:53:09 EST Subject: Re: FFMC Pictures Thank you so much/haven't had time to figure out how to sign on to the forum chat room format or is there one?/again thanks for the help with my Hardy "visualizations"/ the ones in my head are quite vivid but I must improve them and "de-Americanize" some of the details with accurate research/again thanks/Keith Van Allen ==========