H05020 "FACTS NOTEBOOK" QUERY - 3/17/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________

From: royd.whitlock@ntlworld.com

Subject: Re: Michael Henchard

Date: March 17, 2005 5:49:46 AM PST

Dear Rosemarie

Sorry to butt in but can you tell me(us) how one can get to read the

Notebook? Is there

an online version?

I have a [secret] theory about the genesis of Mistress Teresa D'Urberfield

and the Notebook might contain a clue.

Many thanks,

Royd Whitlock [UK]

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From: kgwilson@uottawa.ca

Subject: Facts Notebook

Date: March 17, 2005 6:24:03 AM PST

The Facts Notebook has now been published: Thomas Hardy's 'Facts' Notebook. Edited by. William Greenslade,. Ashgate,

2004. Hardback. ISBN: 1 84014 235 9.

Best,

Keith Wilson

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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu

Subject: Re: Michael Henchard

Date: March 17, 2005 6:57:07 AM PST

Hello Royd!

There is a partially-annotated version of the Notebook: *Thomas Hardy's "Facts" Notebook,* (Ashgate, 2004), edited by William Greenslade. Caution: the editor takes a singularly Gittingsesque approach to Hardy. If you can weather this -- the content survives it -- you'll enjoy the underlying ironies which, as ever, pervade Hardy's vision of things. Here's a sample (he's good on "Class" entries also):

"Duke & Duchess of Montrose -- deaf and blind -- (both apparently) -- an 'interpreter' to enable them to communicate.

Note: The Duchess of Montrose buried the 30th of June; she dies at Table eating some minced Veal. The Duke asking her thro' the means of their Interpreter (being very deaf himself. as likewise blind) how she liked it, her Grace replied that she found it extremely good, and sank back in her chair lifeless." (267)

Good luck with Tess!

Best

Rosemarie

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From: royd.whitlock@ntlworld.com

Subject: Re: Facts Notebook

Date: March 17, 2005 6:58:59 AM PST

EXCELLENT Keith!!!

Royd W.

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