Works of Thomas Hardy discussion

I've put up my first post about Under the Greenwood Tree, which looks Hardy's process for bringing it to market. I'm hoping to get the first post about the book itself up this week.

"Hardy began the process of placing his second novel in August of 1871 with the same publisher where he began, with Macmillan, offering Under the Greenwood Tree as a novel which built upon the positive feedback he'd gotten from readers about his ability to portray rural life in a convincing manner. Hardy steers its plot (such as it is) studiously away from any questions of moral impropriety that may have alienated Macmillan from publishing Poor Man."

Read the rest at http://joyliesslain.blogspot.com/2016...