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Reflections on Poetry

1918: Aet. 77–78

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The Life of Thomas Hardy 1840–1928
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On January 2 Hardy attended a performance of the women land-workers in the Corn Exchange. ‘Met there Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton, Lady Shaftesbury, and other supporters of the movement. The girls looked most picturesque in their raiment of emancipation, which they evidently enjoyed wearing.’

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Hardy, F.E. (1962). Reflections on Poetry. In: The Life of Thomas Hardy 1840–1928. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00286-3_34

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