Illustrations for Hardy's Short Fiction

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"The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid" by Charles Stanley Reinhart

• "The Attitude Bespoke Anguish"
• "I Can't Get out of This Dreadful Tree!"
• "What Be You Here For?"
• "Jim stopped at the Kiln, While Mrs. Peach held the Horse"

"A Tragedy of Two Ambitions" by George Lambert

• On the way to the Hall
• Uncaptioned tail-piece for Part I
• Uncaptioned illustration [The Gypsy wife]
• Uncaptioned illustration [Mr. Fellmer's estate]
• Uncaptioned illustration [Man and woman mowing the meads in June]
• Uncaptioned illustration [Bell-ringers celebrating the birth of a son and heir to the Fellmers]

Illustrations of various works by William Hatherell

• Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels"
• Hardy's "Enter a Dragoon"

"The First Countess of Wessex" by various artists

• "Headpiece": by Alfred Parsons
• "Falls-Park": by Alfred Parsons
• "At the Sow-and-Acorn" by C. S. Reinhar
• "She Beheld the Object of Her Search Sitting on the Horizontal Bough of a Cedar" by C. S. Reinhart
• "He Rode Away in the Direction of Bristol" by Alfred Parsons
• "So He Stormed on till Tupcombe Entered Suddenly"
• "The Drive, King's-Hintock Park" by Alfred Parsons
• "Betty Lay upon the Floor" by C. S. Reinhart

"The Grave by the Hand-post" by George M. Patterson

• Initial uncaptioned headnote
• "I Am Not Worthy To Be Called Thy Son"
• Where His Father Lay Buried

"An Imaginative Woman" by Arthur J. Goodman (1894)

• Initial uncaptioned plate as the bannerhead
• Initial "W"
• By Jove, how far you've gone!
• "I know his name very well; . . . and his writings"
• "'The mantle of Elijah,' she said."
• Then she scanned again . . . the half-obliterated pecilling on the wall"
• He . . . beheld a crouching object beside a newly made grave"
• [William Marchmill, now a widower, holds his son]

"Master John Horseleigh, Knight" by W. B. Wollen (1893)

• Initial uncaptioned plate as the bannerhead
• Inquiring of a bystander, he learnt for the first time of the death of his brother-in-law
• The door opened, and the candle she held in her hand lighted for a moment the stranger's form.
• On his arm being a portly dame
• "Liar!" he said, "to call thyself her husband!"

"To Please His Wife"

• Ornamental headnote with a vignette of Hardy
• "He advanced to their elbow. . ."
• "When on the hill behind the port. . ."

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Last modified 27 December 2007