BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The following abbreviations are used for texts frequently cited throughout the edition.

Biography: M. Millgate, Thomas Hardy: A Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)

Collected Letters: R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate (eds.), The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, 7 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978–88)

Life: Thomas Hardy, The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy, ed. M. Millgate (London: Macmillan, 1984)

Literary Notebooks: L. Björk (ed.), The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1985)

Personal Notebooks: R. Taylor (ed.), The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy (London: Macmillan, 1978)

Poems: S. Hynes (ed.), The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982–95)