... Paris. ® 1840: Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet, born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, son of a stonemason. His longest poem, an epic drama called The Dynasts, had 19 acts and 130 scenes, all in blank verse, and took four years to write. Hardy is buried in ...

... musical, Haymarket, Leicester, January 28 - February 30. Box office (0533) 539797. The Day after the Falr - based on a Thomas Hardy short story, a 19th century tale of unrequited love. The Royal Theatre, Northampton, January 29 to February 20. Oral i ...

... W SILEAS . Kettering The following evening Lifeblood Theatre stages Wessex Days, a tribute to writer Thomas Hardy, and on Wednesday, October 16, harp duo Sileas present an evening of classical Celtic sounds. On Wednesday, October 30, the evening before ...

... @ 1928: Thomas Hardy, English poet, died (60 years ago) aged 87. His ashes are buried in Westminster Abbey but his heart was taken to be buried in his wife's grave in Dorset. Unfortunately an empty tin had to be buried by his wife because Hardy's sister’s ...

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... Week's Good Cause. B.3o—Ferdinand Lopez” (serial). 9.o—News. 9.15 —H. B. Irving by Max Beerbohm. 9.3o—Beethoven. 105 —Thomas Hardy by his friends. 110.52-The Epilogue. 11.0— News suummarv i HOME (330 m. 9.15 a.m.—Home Grown. 5.3} —Children’s Hour. 6 ...

... irritating Yank teenager gets a cold. The top 100 also included such patented insomnia curers as works by the Brontes and Thomas Hardy. At least John Steinbeck, George Orwell and Irvine Welsh, also in the top ten, know how to spin a good yarn. Some of the ...

... Brown’s adaptation of the Thomas Hardy masterpiece is a passionate tale of an innocent country girl whose life is torn apart by cruel fate. More than a century after its original publication, Tess of the D’Urbervilles remains Hardy’s most popular and acclaimed ...

... Departing 16,23, 30 May OSTEND SUPERSAVERS 8 days only £99 e ——————————— Depamng 23 Ma{l (Holiday Weekend) BOURNEMOUTH & THOMAS HARDY COUNTRY 8 days only £167 NEWQUAY & LANDS END 7 days only £135 SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE DALES & MOORS 8 days only £179 ——— ...

... April 8-30. Tickets o (0604) 32533. The Withered Arm - Royal Theatre tours the county with a portrayal of short stories by Thomas Hardy. They will be at the village halls in Cranford (April 15), Grendon (Apri 16), Great Addington, (April 18), Finedon, (April ...