Thomas Hardy penned eight beautiful novels that can traverse heartbreak with a rare, intense depth and emotional honesty, ...

Period drama fans can watch a "perfectly adapted" series for free now. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the life of a low-born c ...

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” ...

A Neolithic site discovered under author Thomas Hardy’s house has been protected as a scheduled monument. The circular ...

Thomas Hardy's retreat from the madding crowds: Photos reveal great novelist's Dorset tour of the real-life locations that he wrote into his books ...

Right: A portrait of Thomas Hardy by Reginal Grenville from 1923. Courtesy Dorset Museum & Art Gallery/Dorset History Centre. Left: The front of Max Gate, Dorset.

Neolithic monument discovered under Thomas Hardy’s former home protected The circular enclosure, which is almost 100 metres in diameter, was found under the garden of Max Gate, in Dorchester ...