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Thomas Hardy

since 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 21:50 UTC

auto-detected in 9 stories

38 days ago

Residents in King Charles' model town hit out at 'arrogant' Duchy of Cornwall for planting trees that is spoiling their 'uninterrupted countryside views'

found 2025 › Oct › 30 (Thu) @ 09:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Homeowners on the edge of Poundbury, Dorset, paid a premium for their 'uninterrupted countryside views' of Thomas Hardy's Wessex.

61 days ago

Owners of historic pub The Silent Woman spark row after changing its 100-year-old name which was inspired by Thomas Hardy ⊕

found 2025 › Oct › 07 (Tue) @ 12:30 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The Pub's new owners -Hall & Woodhouse - have announced it will be renamed The Angel when it reopens next month following a £250,000 refit.

63 days ago

Madding crowd march over plans to build 3,750 homes on unspoilt countryside that inspired Thomas Hardy

found 2025 › Oct › 05 (Sun) @ 09:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

More than 100 people walked defiantly from the centre of Dorchester in Dorset to the edge of the unspoilt landscape under threat.

3 months ago

Glorious English countryside beloved by Thomas Hardy could be 'wiped out' by concrete jungle amid bid to build thousands of homes

found 2025 › Aug › 22 (Fri) @ 08:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Developers have unveiled computer generated images that show how 950 acres of countryside that inspired the Victorian novelist will become a massive housing estate,

5 months ago

I’d lost my childhood love of reading – but rediscovered it when I set aside my iPhone | Adrian Chiles

found 2025 › Jun › 25 (Wed) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

You can keep your ebooks. There is no better way to engage with words than through a paperback

Everything changes so everything can stay the same. In the beginning I read a lot. I read paperback books…

6 months ago

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes says Prince William's Duchy of Cornwall has 'no conscience' after go-ahead to build 100 houses next to Thomas Hardy's home

found 2025 › May › 22 (Thu) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Lord Julian Fellowes is urging the royal estate to spare the 'sacred land' which is next to the Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy's historic home.

Life and work of Thomas Hardy to be performed at Stonehenge

found 2025 › May › 12 (Mon) @ 13:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Readings and performances will be staged at the ‘misfortune of ruins’ that long fascinated the writer

The novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was fascinated by Stonehenge, using what he described as “the t…

10 months ago

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Miss Austen on BBC1: Bonnets and bonfires... how Jane Austen's letters went up in smoke

found 2025 › Feb › 03 (Mon) @ 08:28 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

When the novelist Thomas Hardy died, his widow Florence burned all his letters and notebooks in the grounds behind their Dorset home.

11 months ago

Time of the Child by Niall Williams – new life, new meaning

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 10:22 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A baby is abandoned outside a church in this compelling tale of love and moral crisis in 1960s rural Ireland

With his new novel, Niall Williams has created perhaps the most successful work of his care…

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