For Hardy, who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid, ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put on paper all that she is, or was, to me’, it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist’.
For Hardy, who had written in a letter to Thomas Macquoid, ‘ I am glad you like Tess — though I have not been able to put in theory all that she is, or was, to me’, it was ‘ the beginning of the end of his career as a novelist’.