Thomas Hardy
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Sep 17, 2026
Dan SchreiberHOST
[upbeat music] Okay, it's time for our final fact of the show, and that is my fact.
Dan SchreiberHOST
My fact this week is that the author Thomas Hardy proposed to his second wife by taking her to the grave of his first wife, pointing at the vacant plot near it and saying, "That's for you."
speaker_4HOST
[laughs]
Dan SchreiberHOST
Nice.
Dan SchreiberHOST
It's a really easy read, and he, it's, he's very interesting with it.
Dan SchreiberHOST
Um, and so she was called Florence Dugdale.
Dan SchreiberHOST
She became the second wife of Thomas Hardy, so it, yeah, it did work as a proposal.
Dan SchreiberHOST
And I think he was a slightly, um, socially, uh, quite held back character because in, in the book, it also explains that he used to walk in the road so that he didn't need to bump into people on the sidewalk.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
John Aescough over his pleasant article called Sotto Voce.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
For Mr. Aescough, in instituting his comparisons between Dickens, Thackeray, and Hardy, adopts in the main this matter of character drawing as his great test and touchstone, and I think that he is unsound in his choice of a criterion, while by the way he does injustice to all three great men that he names.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
To take the least important question first, is it just to say that the spots on a man's face were dearer to Thackeray than to the man himself? Nay, let us go gently, but surely this will never pass.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
I have no extravagant admiration for Thackeray, but surely the performance of the task he set himself is worthy of heartier commendation than this.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
There were assuredly many better things than blemishes amongst his stock and trade.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Even Sedley, foolish old failure that he was, did not lack the dignity of repentance on his deathbed.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
And again, I think that Mr. Ayscough, while he lauds Thomas Hardy, does not really appreciate the true matter of the master's greatness.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
He stakes everything on character drawing, and I will say boldly that I believe that in the greatest books and in the last resort character drawing does not matter two pins.
John PlotzHOST
It wants a pope to settle that.
John PlotzHOST
Thomas Hardy, the mayor of Casterbridge.
John PlotzHOST
The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips.
John PlotzHOST
Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory obedience to the holy rage of Sam Chris.
John PlotzHOST
It wants a pope to settle that.
John PlotzHOST
Thomas Hardy, the mayor of Casterbridge.
John PlotzHOST
The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips.
John PlotzHOST
Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory obedience to the holy rage of Sam Chris.
JanHOST
Celebrate the changing of the seasons with music and song as Britain's oldest provincial learned society, Spalding Gentlemen's Society, brings a historic concert to Broad Street Methodist Church on 23rd of October.
JanHOST
Step into the communal winter world of 19th century rural England through the haunting words of Thomas Hardy and the festive traditional tunes of West Gallery musicians.
JanHOST
Winter's Tale is influenced by historic characters, their work and the music of Sunday worship.
JanHOST
During the 18th and 19th centuries, many of these tunes were preserved in books and manuscripts, compiled by a wide range of composers, and collectors tickets cost five pounds and are available online at www.sgsoc.org forward slash events forward slash winter's tales mark
Jon PlotzHOST
It wants a pope to settle that.
Jon PlotzHOST
Thomas Hardy, the mayor of Casterbridge.
Jon PlotzHOST
The proliferating forms and functions of artificial intelligence have loosened many lips.
Jon PlotzHOST
Across the theoretical and the political spectrum, initial reactions ranged from despair to anticipatory obedience to the holy rage of Sam Chris.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Well, I doubt very much whether we admire the Odyssey for any such reason, and so I should like to quarrel quite mildly with Mr. John Aescough over his pleasant article called Sotto Voce.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
For Mr. Aescough, in instituting his comparisons between Dickens, Thackeray, and Hardy, adopts in the main this matter of character drawing as his great test and touchstone, and I think that he is unsound in his choice of a criterion, while by the way he does injustice to all three great men that he names.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
To take the least important question first, is it just to say that the spots on a man's face were dearer to Thackeray than to the man himself? Nay, let us go gently, but surely this will never pass.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
I have no extravagant admiration for Thackeray, but surely the performance of the task he set himself is worthy of heartier commendation than this.
David WalesNARRATOR
It made no more stir than did Almayer's Folly in the early 90s, although the wonderful Richard Feverel had already preceded it.
David WalesNARRATOR
With the coming of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy, the form of the novel, springing straight from the shores of France, where Madame Bovary and Une Vie showed what might be done by taking trouble, grew into a question of considerable import.
David WalesNARRATOR
Robert Louis Stevenson showed how important it was to say things agreeably, even when you had not very much to say.
David WalesNARRATOR
Henry James showed that there was so much to say about everything that you could not possibly get to the end of it, and Rudyard Kipling showed that the great thing was to see things as they were.
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David WalesNARRATOR
We wonder, as Sulaco grows familiar to us, as we realize its cathedral, its squares and streets and houses, its slums, its wharves, its sea, its hills and forests, why it is that other novelists have not created towns for us.
David WalesNARRATOR
Anthony Trollope did, indeed, give us Barchester, but Barchester is a shadow beside Sulaco.
David WalesNARRATOR
Mr. Thomas Hardy's Wessex map is the most fascinating document in modern fiction, with the possible exception of Stevenson's chart in Treasure Island.
David WalesNARRATOR
Conrad, without any map at all, gives us a familiarity with a small town on the South American coast that far excels our knowledge of Barsetshire, Wessex, and John Silver's treasure.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
But we do read it so.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
Love poets are but seldom the singers of happiness in love and the greatest love poet of our own times, Thomas Hardy, has given an expression that is immortal to the intolerable anguish of desiderium.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
With some good show of reason we may say therefore that the characteristic emotion of poetry is a longing for the things that are not, for permanence amid change, for security in unrest, this evermore unrest as Shakespeare called it, for eternity amid mortality.
James K. WhiteNARRATOR
And this emotion is not peculiar to the romantic modern soul, it exists in classical poetry as well as in our own.
Shelby BundyHOST
When death came slowly to someone lying on such a bed, the family would lift the dying person and place them on the floor, on bare boards, so that the passage could complete itself.
Shelby BundyHOST
Thomas Hardy documented the belief.
Shelby BundyHOST
It appears in folklore collections from across the north of England.
Shelby BundyHOST
The feathers did not cause the difficulty.
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