HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0054 5/13/00 "NOTES AND QUERIES" =============================================== Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 09:02:01 -0700 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Brodsky's Hardy Book Dear List Members, I have been trying unsucessfully to obtain a copy of _The Essential Hardy_ (The Essential Poets, Vol 21), ed. Joseph Brodsky for some time now. Amazon says the publisher is out of stock. Does anyone have a copy they would like to sell? Many Thanks, Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu ========== From: "Tony Shaw" Subject: James Prior, the Hardy of the Midlands Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 00:07:06 +0100 Has anyone heard anything of James Prior, sentimental regional novelist from Nottinghamshire dubbed 'the Hardy of the Midlands' by someone whose name appears to have been forgotten. Much admired by JM Barrie and, er, John Buchan. His work was obviously successful at times because his Forest Folk was reprinted frequently, his A Walking Gentleman at least twice in England and once in the States. Has anyone heard of him? Thanks in advanceTony Shaw "mailto:tonyshaw5@x-stream.co.uk">tonyshaw5@x-stream.co.uk ========== Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:57:47 +1000 From: David Cornelius Subject: Predatory males Would anyone care to comment on the view that Hardy saw that sex and the predatory male as being part of nature’s pattern? Regards, David Cornelius **** David Cornelius 5 Caltowie Place Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia. dcorney@midcoast.com.au Carpe diem! *** ========== From: Martin Ray Subject: Re: Hardy photographs Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 12:46:21 -0400 (EDT) An interesting item in today's Sunday Times (21 May) describes the discovery of some unknown photographs of the Queen Mother, taken by Emil Hoppé in the 1920s. They were part of the Mansell collection of some 10,000 photographs which have been lying in a London warehouse since 1947. Now, the point of all this is that there are three known portraits of Hardy by Hoppé: one is in the Dorset County Museum (dated ca. 1908), another is used as illustration no. 13 in Millgate's edition of the Life (1914), and the third (also 1914) is staring down at me as I write (I described it in the THJ, February 1998). It seems quite possible that there may be another unknown one in the Mansell collection, and I shall investigate over the summer. In the meantime, I'll paste the relevant parts of the Sunday Times article below, since it gives an interesting context to the fact that Hardy sat for such a fashionable photographer. Martin [QUOTE:] PICTURED days before her engagement to the future George VI, the young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon already radiates the charm that would captivate a nation. In January 1923, as she prepared to exchange the life of a debutante for marriage to a prince, Emil Hoppé, the society photographer, captured her mood in sessions at her home in St James's Square and his studio in west London. The cache of 16 photographs, some taken shortly before she accepted "Bertie's" third marriage proposal in the woods at Walden Bury in Hertfordshire, has lain undisturbed in a London warehouse since 1947. Now the photographs are to be made public for the first time by Hoppé's grandson, Michael. Hoppé, born in 1878, was one of the pioneers of portrait photography. He started his career by photographing customers of his wife's boutique, off Bond Street in central London. He became a favourite with society figures and photographed leading lights from literature and the arts, including Sir Edward Elgar, A A Milne and H G Wells. According to his son, Frank, the family became accustomed to rubbing shoulders with royalty and celebrities at their father's studio. "When she was six, my sister, Muriel, spotted Queen Alexandra, and called out, 'Where's your crown?' The cheeky remark was received with acclaim." Hoppé, however, was never fully at ease among his well-bred clients, and gave up portraiture in the early 1930s to travel the world. His collection of pictures, which comprised approximately 10,000 shots, was eventually sold to the Mansell collection in 1947, where it remained untouched. "They were simply parcelled up and forgotten," said Frank Hoppé, 79, at his home in Launceston, north Cornwall. "My father went to Australia and never went back to look for them." The pictures re-emerged because of the detective work of Graham Howe, the curator of a picture library in Pasadena, California. He spent years persuading the owners of the Mansell collection to open up the warehouse to him, finally enlisting the help of Hoppé's grandson, Michael, who also lived in California. END ----- Dr Martin Ray Department of English University of Aberdeen Aberdeen Scotland, UK m.ray@abdn.ac.uk ==========