HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H0072 9/4/00 "TINSLEY ARCHIVE QUESTION" =================================================== Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:54:02 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)u Subject: Tinsley and Desperate Remedies From: C.M.Farrelly@sussex.ac.uk (Carol Farrelly) Dear Members I am a Dphil student researching Hardy and late nineteenth century constructions of readership. At the moment, I am looking at the writing, publication, and reception of his first published novel _Desperate Remedies_. I wonder if anyone could tell whether there are any surviving archives for the publisher Tinsleys, relating either to Hardy or to his dealings with other writers of the time. I have already looked through his autobiography _Random Recollections_. Also, does anyone perhaps know of any other responses to the published novel other than the reviews which appeared in the Morning Post, Spectator and Saturday Review? I would appreciate any help whichanyone could offer. Thank you Yours Carol Farrelly Carol Farrelly e-mail: c.m.farrelly@sussex.ac.uk ========== Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:35:52 -0400 From: Robert Schweik Subject: Re: Tinsley and Desperate Remedies Carol, If memory serves (and I don't have the book on hand right now) Richard Little Purdy, in his Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study, includes an appendix providing the Hardy-Tinsley correspondence. Bob Schweik Robert Schweik Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus schweik@fredonia.edu ========== Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:37:09 -0500 From: Bill Morgan Subject: Re: Tinsley and Desperate Remedies Bob is right about Purdy and the Hardy-Tinsley correspondence, but what Purdy provides is not the letters themselves but a "Calendar" of the correspondence with dates and short synopses of the letters. The period covered by the 50 letters Purdy summarizes is 1869-75. Purdy also says that the archives of the house of Tinsley have long since been sold and dispersed and that Tinsley's memoir is inaccurate and not to be trusted. Interesting project. Hope this helps. best, Bill Morgan ========== From: "James Gibson" > Subject: Tinsley & Desperate Remedies Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:52:15 +0100 Dear CarolThere was a review of >Desperate Remedies in The Athenaeum 1 April 1871. Yours James Gibson ==========