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I chose to include this ornamented opening letter of "An Imaginative Woman" because I find's Goodman and Hardy's artistic choices blend to make a sly comment on the story through a simple letter "W." The box contains what appears to be tangled…

When I was looking for my Omeka items, I discovered that I was mistaken about the original publication of "An Imaginative Woman." I came across this image, which is an original illustration that accompanied "An Imaginative Woman" in Pall Mall…

This photograph comes from the edition of "Wessex Tales" that was published in 1912. It shows the hangman's cottage, which Gertrude visits in order to cure her arm.

Many of Thomas Hardy's works take place in Wessex, which is named after the Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed before the unification of England. Many real towns in southern and southwestern England have been renamed in Hardy's Wessex, and this map may…

This book details how to pull off simple magic tricks as well as how to communicate with spirits. Published in 1855, we can get a sense as to the fascination Victorians had of the supernatural and how this fascination inspired many writers in the…

Queen Victoria was married to Prince Albert on April 10, 1840. She is actually credited with popularizing the use of a white gown at weddings, as it was popular among higher classes but not with others at the time. The selection of white as the…

This article, "Healthy Homes" is published in the exact newspaper as "Alicia's Diary" was for the first time. It appears right after the first installment of "Alicia's Diary", separated only by a small break in the page. It is interesting that these…

This is the original printing of "Alicia's Diary". It started in the October 15th, 1887 publication of the Manchester Times and concluded in the next week's publication. There are no images printed anywhere throughout the story in the newspaper, so…

This note appears in within the first few pages of Thomas Hardy's collection, A Changed Man and Other Tales. He says he has compiled a dozen of his "minor novels" into this collection, so that readers may be able to access his stories easier. Being…

In a lot of Thomas Hardy's literature, such as "On The Western Circuit", he describes beautiful landscapes of Wessex. He created this fictional place in order to make his own histories and stories within a place he created by his own hand. Perhaps…