HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE  H0087  10/23/00  "LOCATING HARDY'S ILLUSTRATIONS"
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From: Fennemore P <P.Fennemore@rhbnc.ac.uk>
Subject: Hardy's Illustrations
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:31:25 +0100
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Dear all,

I am a third year undergraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, and
am about to embark on a Hardy dissertation. I'm wanting to write about the
illustrations that appeared with the original publications. Does anyone know
where the originals are kept, if indeed they still exist, and whether it is
possible to gain access to them for the purpose of research. I know there
was an exhibition at the John Ryland's Library in Manchester earlier this
year, but was not able to go. Does anyone know if this was their collection
or whether they were given to them on loan, or whether the collection is
together in one place or not.

I would appreciate any information, and indeed the titles of any books that
deal with the effect of illustration both in Hardy and in the Victorian
novel in general.

Thank you,

Paul Fennemore.

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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 07:10:36 -0400
Subject: Re: Hardy's Illustrations
From: "Philip & Andrea Allingham" <apalling@tbaytel.net>


Dear Paul,
    I know that the Dorchester Museum has an oroiginal Herkomer drawing for
the pictorial program to accompany *Tess of the D'Urbervilles* in *The
Graphic* for 1891. Where you might find the original drawings by Robert
Barnes for *The Mayor of Casterbridge* and Arthur Hopkins for *The Return of
the Native*, etc., I cannot say, but I venture to guess that they are widely
dispersed. In researching your your topic, you have probably already looked
at Michael Steig's book *Phiz!*, E. M. F. Tomlin's *Charles Dickens
1812-1870 ACentenary Volume*, and, of course, Arlene M. Jackson's
*Illustration and the Novels of Thomas Hardy* (1981). Look also at Ormond's
*George Du Maurier* (1969), Simon Houfe's *The Dictionary of British Book
Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1*, Martin Meisel's *Realizations*
(1983), Norman Page's "Hardy's Forgotten Illustrators* in *The Bulletin of
the New York Public Library* 77, 4 (1974), and Forrest Reid's * Illustrators
of the 1860s*. A number of important journal articles in *THJ*, *!9th C.
Literature*, *THYB*, and *Victorian Periodicals Review* by myself,
PamelaDalziel, Donald Winslow, and others will be helpful, too; almost
nothing has been said about the illustrations of the short stories: I have
an article in press with *The Thomas Hardy Journal* due out soon on *The
Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid*. I hope all this helps.
Philip V. Allingham,
Lakehead University,
Thunder Bay, Ontario:
philip.alllingham@lakeheadu.ca

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From: "Alan Shelston" <alan@shelston.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Hardy's Illustrations
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:00:14 +0100


The items in the John Rylands exhibition were  partly from the libarary's
holdings, partly from holding in the Manchester Metropolitan University
library, and partly from a private collection. The exhibition itself was
very informative, and I reviewed it in the most recent edition of The Thomas
Hardy Society Journal.

Alan Shelston,
University of Manchester

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