"Tess"

[Thomas Hardy, Novelist]

Spy

4 January 1892

Vanity Fair

See the Forty Years of 'Spy" commentary below.

Other Literary Caricatures from Vanity Fair

• "The Poet Laureate" (Alfred Tennyson)
• "The Representative of Romance" (Bulwer-Lytton)
• "The Diogenes of the Modern Corinthians without his Tub" (Thomas Carlyle)
• Anthony Trollope (Men of the Day No. 60)
• Benjamin Disraeli (Statesmen, No. 1)
• "The Novelist who invented Sensation" (Wilkie Collins)

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Mr. Thomas Hardy was not talkative as a sitter, but he was pleasant. In appearance he did not [291/292] present the idea of a typical literary man: his clothes had a sporting touch about them.

Bibliography

Ward, Leslie ['Spy']. Forty Years of 'Spy'. London: Chatto and Windus, 1915.

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