HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE HO2067 11/1/02 "NOVEMBER 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS" ================================================================ Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 20:55:04 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for November Earlier today, I posted Hardy's "The Pity of It" and "Often When Warring," two of his poems on the Great War, as the TTHA Poem(s) of the Month for November 2002. This month's discussion is the eighth in a series dedicated to Hardy's sonnets. I invite your contributions to a month-long on-line conversation about two of Hardy's sonnets from a sequence called "Poems of War and Patriotism," a series of 17 poems offering both his critique of war in general and his attempts to support England's resistance to what he saw as unprovoked German aggression. You can find the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion by following the links from the main TTHA page at http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Welcome/welcomet.htm or by going directly to http://webboard.ilstu.edu/~TTHA_POTM_DISCUSSIONS Whichever route you take, when you arrive at the Poem of the Month site, you will encounter a program called WebBoard, which will give you the opportunity to read the poems as well as any comments they may have generated, compose a response, preview your response, edit it further if you wish, and then post it by using the button labeled Post the Message. If you are composing an intricate or long response, you may want to prepare your message in a word processing program, then copy it to your clipboard before pasting it into the message area of WebBoard. And if you prefer, feel free to send me your contribution as an e-mail, and I will post it for you: wwmorgan@ilstu.edu. Besides this month's discussion, the other conversations about Hardy's sonnets available at the site are April ("Hap"), May ("At a Lunar Eclipse"), June ("She, to Him, I-IV"), July ("Her Reproach" and "Her Confession"), August ("To an Actress" and "To an Impersonator of Rosalind," September ("In the Old Theatre, Fiesole," "Rome: On the Palatine," and "Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter"), and October ("Embarcation" and "Departure). The discussions of Hardy's memorial and holiday poems from August 2001 ("The Last Signal"), September ("Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius" and "Shelley's Skylark"), October ("At a House in Hampstead" and "At Lulworth Cove a Century Back"), November ("To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred Years"), December ("Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden" and "George Meredith"), January 2002 ("A New Year's Eve in War Time"), February ("The Oxen"), March ("A Drizzling Easter Morning") are also posted at the site and open for contributions until sometime later in the year when they will be published in *The Hardy Review*. The discussions of poems with female narrators ("The Dark-Eyed Gentleman," "She At His Funeral," "Her Confession," "Tess's Lament," "The Pine-Planters," "The Pink Frock," "The Beauty," "I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town," "An Upbraiding," "The Chapel-Organist," "A Sunday-Morning Tragedy," and "A Trampwoman's Tragedy") will soon be published in *The Hardy Review*, V. All of the older discussions will remain posted at the site until such time as they are edited and published in either *The Hardy Review* or in one of TTHA's Occasional Papers. The discussions for February, 1998 through November 1999 have been "closed" and their contents edited and published in *The Hardy Review* [I:1 (July 1998) and 2:1 (Summer 1999)]. Likewise, the conversations from 1999 about the "Emma" poems have been published as the second of the TTHA Occasional Series. And those concerning "Channel Firing," "Satires of Circumstance in 15 Glimpses," "After the Visit," "To Meet, or Otherwise," and "A Singer Asleep" have been published in *The Hardy Review*, III (Summer 2000). The discussions of "Nature's Questioning," "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "The Lacking Sense," "In a Wood," "To Outer Nature," "June Leaves and Autumn," "Wagtail and Baby," "On a Midsummer Eve," "Afterwards," "Shut Out That Moon," "The Last Chrysanthemum," "The Year's Awakening," and "The Night of the Dance" have been edited and published in *The Hardy Review*, IV (Summer 2001). All of these publications are available free or at a discounted price to TTHA members and may be ordered by others using an on-line form available at the main TTHA page (see the URL above). Welcome to the TTHA Poem of the Month Discussion for November 2002. cheers, Bill Morgan ========== Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:03:36 -0500 From: Robert Schweik Subject: 2003 Forthcoming Hardy Publications Just a note to point out that the TTHA "Checklist" not only provides information on the most current publications but also gives information about forthcoming ones. In the current version of the Checklist there are citations of both primary and secondary Hardy publications coming out in 2003. This feature of the Checklist can be particularly valuable for researchers: in every case the "forthcoming" work is, in fact, available in at least one library. I want to strongly encourage any members of the forum who have publications on Hardy *in press*--in article or book form--to let me know so that I can add those to the ones already cited. One caution: the Checklist cites *only* works actually *in press*; it does *not* cite works "in progress." I would, also, like to encourage Forum members to look over the list of publications surveyed by the Checklist team--noting particularly those which are not yet covered. Any volunteers who could cover any of the uncovered journals can get in touch with me. The "Checklist of Recent Hardy Publications" is unique in Hardy bibliography and a valuable resource for anyone doing research in the field. Those who contribute to it are making an important contribution to Hardy scholarship. For the Checklist team, many thanks! Bob Schweik schweik@fredonia.edu schweikr@localnet.com ========== Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 16:10:43 -0500 Subject: Re: 2003 Forthcoming Hardy Publications From: "Philip & Andrea Allingham" Dear Bob: I note that you have already reported on the publication of Sarah Bird Wright's *Thomas Hardy A to Z*; my review of it is already posted on the Victorian Web, and should appear soon on the "Reviews" page of the THA website; if you'd care to have a look at it and see what I've done with all those vacation/conference photos from last summer try http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/authors/hardy/bioov.html Thanks to Charlotte Kastner of Cologne, the VW has a photo of William Barnes's statue in Dorchester, so I put up a biographical sketch of him that seems pertinent to Hardy studies. Sincerely, Philip Allingham. ========== Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:31:58 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: 2003 Forthcoming Hardy Publications Philip-- the photographs of "Wessex" are excellent, especially the reproductions of the Hermann Lea prints. Thank you for a very useful and picturesque resource. In the interests of authenticity regarding the "Wessex" settings it is worth recalling Lea's words: "I want to make it very clear at the outset that the descriptions given in the novels and poems must be regarded in their totality as those of imaginative places. The exact Wessex of the books exists nowhere outside them. (Lea, *Thomas Hardy's Wessex,* 1913, recently re-issued by Penguin Books, ed, Gregory Stevens Cox 2 vols, 1986 p18). A good example of mis-attribution occurs with "Tess's Cottage," notwithstanding the anecdotal account supplied by the owner of the cottage. Lea's observations on *Tess* begin with Hardy's village-setting of "Marlott" inspired by the actual village of Marnhull: "Marnhull was once quite a considerable place; the remains of many streets may be traced where the houses have now entirely disappeared. The buildings now are curiously disconnected, many wide gaps intervening....the old cottage in which Tess was imagined to have been born...alas, appears to have been swept away. >From the description of its situation we may assume that it stood at the end of the village nearest to Shaftesbury" (21-23). Hardy himself walked over "Wessex" with Lea and also corrected the proofs of his book. He wrote to Lea in 1904 to say, "I have again and again denied that the fictitious places *are* such and such real ones, but are merely ideal places suggested by them" (Sanders collection, DCM). It is unfortunate that the Hardy tourist industry tends to elide the fictitious in favour of the "real." In the interests of authenticity many of us would like to see tourist guides preface their "Wessex" tours with Hardy's (or Lea's) own words on the subject. With every good wish, Rosemarie ========== Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:50:27 -0500 From: Shannon Rogers Subject: Book Reviews Page Updated Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by f04n01.cac.psu.edu id JAA106874 Greetings Hardy fans, one and all, This is just a quick post to announce that the Book Reviews Page has now been updated to include the following: Carol Farrelly reviewing Alan Whitworth's new edition of Hardy's Memories of Church Restoration Rosemarie Morgan's review of Bob Schweik's “Hardy’s ‘Plunge in a New and Untried Direction’: Comic Detachment in The Hand of Ethelberta,” which appeared in the June 2002 volume of English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature Birgit Plietzch's review of the new CD-ROM version of Hardy's Collected Letters Enjoy! Shannon Rogers ========== Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:28:10 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: News From Japan Greetings All: I've just posted, on News Updates, the latest News Bulletin from The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan -- kindly emailed to me by TTHA Director, Professor Sumiko Inoue. http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/updates.htm Many thanks, Best, Rosemarie ========== Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:36:58 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: A reminder : Dear Forum Family, Martin's last posting was a reminder to me of the fact that we are all requested to sign our full names to Forum messages. I have to admit I have been remiss in this matter myself. This is just a matter of courtesy, so that responses to your message can be addressed in a more friendly way. Please, let's keep family a friendly one, foregoing the sibling in-fighting. Many Thanks, Betty Cortus ========== Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:38:06 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re:The Latest TTHA Web News Greetings folks-- this is to announce some really GOOD website news. Over the past few weeks I have been working on html-ing the new 1990s TH bibliography offered to TTHA by Jeanie Smith-- a Phd scholar in Britain: this bibliography forms part of her thesis work on Hardy publications of the 1990s and aptly fits the Members' Research Page which, as TTHA members will already know, offers an up-to-the-minute bibliography -- Checklist -- of works on Hardy, current and forthcoming. This Checklist is expertly directed by Bob Schweik who somehow manages to keep the 16 Hardy worldclass scholars who research this page permanently up to speed. I have heard that it is way ahead of the MLA listing in terms of currency and research. Bravo everyone! The Checklist took off in the millennium year, 2000; hence Jeanie's bibliography leads into it most appropriately. Thank you Jeanie! That's the background blurb! Next is that I've retained the name "Jeanie's Bibliography" for the title of this page (instead of "A 1990s Bibliography") because, quite simply, I like it! It's personal, it's an implicit vote of thanks and it's informal (I hope Jeanie approves). Now, none of this would have happened without Birgit Plietzsch-- one of TTHA's techie wizards who has also, meanwhile, patiently borne my redesigning of the Members' (MRR) opening page where I had decided to feature all manner of delights just to cheer it up. Birgit didn't much go for my plastic dinosaurs or flying geese but she has allowed me a pretty uppercase here and there just to vary the dull presentation. Hope you like it. And thank you, Birgit. So, TTHA members, go check out our stylish Jeanie page on MRR and, of course, feedback (especially errata) is always welcome. Cheers Rosemarie ========== Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:49:06 -0600 From: Bill Morgan Subject: Re:The Latest TTHA Web News Rosemarie-- This latest addition to the Members' Resource section looks to me like a major contribution to the panoply of TTHA resources and an important work for Hardy students and scholars. Congratulations and thanks to Jeannie Smith, Birgit, and you for making it available. cheers, Bill ========== Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:07:30 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Warning Dear members, Do NOT open any messages from the Forum which contain attachments. They may contain viruses. We have have a merciful respite from these nuisances for some time now, but the mischef makers are back again. Just one more reminder, never send messages with e-attachments to the list either. Thank You, Betty Cortus ========== Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:57:40 -0500 To: slach@bcn.net, schweik@fredonia.edu, hardycor@owl.csusm.edu, Bill Morgan , "ks-inoue" , skeen@wlu.edu, kgwilson@uottawa.ca, enl090@abdn.ac.uk, "James Gibson" , Linda Peterson , Ralph.elliott@anu.edu.au, rnemesva@stfx.ca, Birgit Plietzsch , goddess@psu.edu, shanta_dutta16@yahoo.com, taylor@bc.edu, pallingh@mail1.lakeheadu.ca From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: New Business Hi team-- This to announce that Dr Philip Allingham, who was voted in as a new TTHA Vice President some months ago has agreed to take on the Directorship of TTHA's LINKS page. As you will know the LINKS page was one of the very first to be constructed when TTHA started off in 1998, and in those days, when Bob Schweik and I knew absolutely nothing about websites or html (I didn't even use email in those days), LINKS took off as something of an experiment with Bob doing all the research and posting it all to me to put online on a page I'd designed for the purpose. Shortly afterwards, Bob took the bull by the horns and learned html at which point we shipped LINKS from Yale to Fredonia where it has flourished ever since, under Bob's expertise. LINKS has progressed from a few dozen linked sites to over 300! These are all Hardy-related sites and each one has been carefully evaluated by Bob. This has been an enormous boon to researchers who are now able to save precious time by having internet listings at their fingertips and are thus not only freed from the chore of searching the internet but also from searching and finding websites that may be irrelevant to their purposes. When the CHECKLIST page (on the Members' Only page), also inaugurated by Bob a year or so ago and started to become yet another full-time job it was evident that TTHA needed another Director for LINKS which, like the CHECKLIST requires constant updating and revision. We are very lucky indeed to have Philip undertake this Directorship -- his prolific work on Hardy has drawn the admiration of all of us over the years. I have set up a Vice President's page, for Philip, in TTHA's VP Box where you can take a look at the man himself (if you don't already know him). And more important -- the LINKS page itself: Philip has now been through it with a toothcomb and wishes to present it to TTHA's team of Directors and Vice-President for approval before it is officially linked to HQ at Yale. This approval seeking process, as you know, is the customary procedure for all new or modified projects. So please take some time to look over the LINKS page at the URL below and post your feedback to the three of us who have been directly involved Philip-- Bob -- Rosemarie -- You may of course post your feedback to the entire team if you wish. Errata is especially useful. Ideas for improvement are invaluable. And, generally, anything related to LINKS that crosses your mind, however small, will be most welcomed. Welcome on board , Philip! Here's to the continuing success of TTHA's famous LINKS page, now to be found at: http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~pvalling/linksone/related.htm Please check it out and please do remember that our Bylaws require the written consent of the majority before organisational changes of this kind can be adopted. With every good wish, Rosemarie ========== Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:29:14 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Reminder Dear Alan, and Others, A reminder for those wishing to unsubscribe from HARDY-L, please do NOT write to the list itself. Just send an e-mail to: HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu and write the word unsubscribe in the subject or re line. This is all you have to do. Do NOT write anything in the body of the message or you will void your attempt to unsubscribe. Note: this is a slightly different address than the one you use for sending messages to the list. Many Thanks, Betty Cortus ========== From: "Helen Gibson" Subject: 'Thomas Hardy in Cambridge': Monday 28 - Wednesday 30 July 2003 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:39:42 -0000 Greetings to everyone, This is just to update you on the recruitment situation for the Cambridge conference which is being jointly promoted and run by the THS and TTHA. This will be held at the 15th Century Magdalene College, of which Hardy was made an Honorary Fellow in 1913. Details of the membership rates are set out below on the booking form. We are delighted to say that two thirds of the places have now been taken  do sign up now! We can only offer a limited number of places due to the heavy demand on Cambridge University s facilities. We are pleased to announce that of the world class scholars on Thomas Hardy we have invited to speak, the following have accepted: Professor Gillian Beer, Dr James Gibson, Professor William Morgan, Professor Robert Schweik and Professor Dennis Taylor. Furse Swann (Chairman of the Hardy Society) will lead a walk round the colleges where Thomas Hardy went with Horace Moule when he visited him at Queens  College, shortly after the publication of A Pair of Blue Eyes. There will also be the opportunity to explore other parts of this beautiful and interesting university city. In addition, we are planning poetry readings, and there will be the chance to view three important Hardy manuscripts  Jude the Obscure, Time s Laughingstocks, and Moments of Vision, and the portrait of Hardy by Augustus John at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and another at Magdalene College. It promises to be a full and interesting time! Best wishes, Helen Gibson The Thomas Hardy Society & The Thomas Hardy Association invite you to THOMAS HARDY IN CAMBRIDGE  A CONFERENCE AT MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK Monday 28th  Wednesday 30th July 2003 _______________________________ Talks, Walks, Lectures and Poetry Readings Enjoy the communal spirit of living in the 15th Century Magdalene College (where Hardy was made an Honorary Fellow), combined with an exciting programme of lectures, a chance to view the manuscripts of Moments of Vision, Jude the Obscure, and Times Laughingstocks and Augustus John s portrait of Hardy at the Fitzwilliam Museum. There will also be the opportunity to explore this fine university city and to trace where Hardy walked when he visited his friend and mentor, Horace Moule. ___________________________________________________ Places are limited, so please book early. If you would like any further information, please contact Helen Gibson, The Thomas Hardy Society, P.O.Box 1438, Dorchester DT1 1YH (t/f: +44 (0)1305 251501, or (0)1300-341434)/ info@hardysociety.org Or, Rosemarie Morgan: rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu BOOKING FORM Please reserve me/us a place(s) for Thomas Hardy in Cambridge  ¯ Full conference membership from 28-30th July 2003 is £195 per person (covers all conference events, 2 nights bed/breakfast, plus 2 lunches and 2 dinners and coffee/tea) ¯ Non-residential membership from 28-30th July 2003 is £90 per person (covers all conference events, 2 lunches, coffee and tea) Dinners can be booked separately at £27.50 each) v I/We enclose a cheque/bank draft for £25 per person deposit and will pay the balance not later than 1 July 2003. (Cheques payable to: The Thomas Hardy Society. v Dollar checks must be made out to Rosemarie Morgan and mailed to 124, Bishop St, New Haven, CT 06511 v I wish to pay the deposit/in full by credit card (VISA/MasterCard/EuroCard) Card No: Name ................................................ Signed ................................. Date .......................... Address ........................................................................................................................... Please send this form, together with your deposit if paying by cheque/bank draft, to: The Thomas Hardy Society, PO Box 1438, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1YH (t/f: +44 (O)1305-251501 Dollar checks must be made out to Rosemarie Morgan and mailed , with booking form, to 124 Bishop St, New Haven , CT 06511 ==========