The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 Book

Prefatory note; Part I. Early Life and Architecture: 1. Birth and boyhood, 1840–55; 2. Student and architect, 1856–62; 3. Work in London, 1862–7; 4. Between architecture and literature, 1867–70; 5. St. Juliot, 1870; Part II. Novels - to Illness: 6. First three books, 1870–3; 7. Far from the Madding Crowd, marriage, and another novel, 1873–16; 8. Holland, the Rhine, and Sturminster Newton, 1876–8; 9. Life and literature in a London suburb, 1878–80; 10. London, Normandy, and Cambridge, 1879–80; Part III. Illness, Novels, and Italy: 11. A difficult period; and a change, 1880–1; 12. Wimborne and Two on a Tower, 1882–3; 13. The country town, 1883–5; 14. Max Gate and The Woodlanders, 1885–7; 15. Italian journey, 1887; Part IV. Between Town and Country: 16. London friends, Paris, and short stories, 1887–8; 17. More town friends and a novel's dismemberment, 1888–9; 18. Observations on people and things, 1890; 19. The novel Tess restored and published, 1891.