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This is an image of Edith crying on the chair. She recognizes the wrongful nature of the love and attachment she possesses for Raye, and this causes her immense grief. This illustration depicts this event as it occurs in the story, "On the Western…

This is an image of the illustration provided at the end of the story in the magazine version of "On the Western Circuit." A girl and boy cupid are displayed to be looking at and holding open a book which states, "The End," with "CMC" initialed at…

This is a page of classified ads in the The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent for the original publication of Alicia's Diary. The ad has contains the early review's of the the story along with naming some of Hardy's other works. The ad is written as…

This is a description of the back cover of Thomas Hardy's collection of "A Changed Man and Other Tales." In the first paragraph of the description, it speaks about the history of Thomas Hardy's short stories and everything that the collection…

This is the Table of Contents in Thomas Hardy's collection, A Changed Man and Other Tales. It is interesting to look at the table of contents and see how he decided to place all of the short stories within the collection because it is likely that…

This is an image of what the cover of "Alicia's Diary," by Thomas Hardy looks like. This image of the cover has a somewhat older looking feel to it with the border surrounding the words on the page and the older and more worn out looking color of the…

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…

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…

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 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…