THE SOCIETY

23rd INTERNATIONAL & 50th ANNIVERSARY

FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE Dorchester, , UK

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23rd INTERNATIONAL & 50th ANNIVERSARY

FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE 2018

Festival & Conference Committee

Conference Chairman - Dr Tony Fincham Conference Co-ordinator - Mike Nixon (07812 677485) Academic Director - Dr. Jane Thomas Post-Graduate Convenor: Tracy Hayes Sponsorship - Marilyn Leah Catering - Mike Nixon Accommodation - Sue Clarke Tours Co-ordinator - Pat Withers

2 23 FESTIVAL and CONFERENCE BOOKING FORM 2018 Festival & Conference Foreword Name 1: Welcome to Dorchester – and welcome to the Thomas Hardy Society’s 23rd Inter- national Festival and Conference! Name 2: Address: This special Golden Jubilee Festival marks the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Thomas Hardy Society, the permanent progeny of that original 1968 event. As such, we have tried to return to our original roots with the initial weekend of Post/zip code: celebrations being based at Kingston Maurward College (Knapwater House) Email: Tel: where the first Hardy Festival took place. On the Sunday we are taking over the Member(s) of the Thomas Hardy Society: YES/NO college grounds for The Thomas Hardy Country Fair – a new and exciting venture – to be followed by an outdoor performance of The Trumpet-Major. Throughout ACCOMMODATION (Please tick/delete as necessary) the week of the Festival, we have a novel, diverse and stimulating programme – Please send accommodation information about:: but not forgetting the old favourites, including plentiful walks and tours plus a vig- Dorchester Surrounding area orous academic programme, in which greater prominence has been given to the Call for Papers speakers, all of whom will now be speaking in morning sessions; Hotels Inns/Pubs Guest/Farmhouses/Bed & Breakfast Self catering freeing up the afternoons for the enjoyment and exploration of Hardy’s Wessex. I understand that I must book and pay for this and be responsible for transport where necessary As always, the Festival and Conference draws together the disparate strands of Conference & Festival Fees Members of the Thomas Hardy Society £230 Hardyan interest – from the acclaimed academic to the lay enthusiast - to express Full-time student/early-career researcher+ members £ 50 through lecture, seminar, music, drama, film, walk and outing – and most espe- Non-members & guests of members £250 cially Poetry – the living vibrant world Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. Deposit per person on booking £ 70 Deposit per student member £ 10 Roger Thomas, the Chairman of the 1968 Festival, opened his Festival notes NB Deposit only refunded if cancellation received before 1st May thus: Day rate: £45 (members) £50.00 (others); Individual Lectures: £8.00 + Early-career researchers - those who have been awarded their PhD within the last 3 years but are not yet in a Let me enjoy the earth no less permanent academic post, and are unable to claim costs from an institution. Because the all-enacting Might The Conference and Festival membership fee includes attendance at all lectures, talks, seminars, That fashioned forth its loveliness poetry readings and evening entertainments as well as dinner on the first night and the farewell Had other aims than my delight. party. There are additional charges for the excursions and walks. As demand for Tickets is likely to be high, an early reservation for the 2018 Conference and Festival is recommended. To honour a man, to enrich life, to kindle joy – such were the feelings that inspired *please delete as necessary this Festival. I/we* enclose a cheque/bank draft* payable to The Thomas Hardy Society for £70 per person as a deposit and will pay the balance not later than1 June2018; OR I/We* wish to pay the deposit/in full* by credit card: Tony Fincham. Card type: VISA Mastercard Eurocard

Card no. If you would like further information about the Festival & Conference The Thomas Expiry date: Name of card holder: Hardy Society or THS membership please contact: The Thomas Hardy Society Please also debit the balance of my/our* Conference fees & Walk & Tour fees on 1 June 2018 c/o , High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA Tel: (0)1305 251501; email: [email protected] Signed: ...... Date: ...... 22 (Reg. Charity No:254248) 3 Festival & Conference Programme Notes Festival & Conference Walks & Tours Booking Form

The Wessex Consort, A Memorial Concert Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS & make cheques payable to the Thomas Hardy Society at Kingston Maurward College from 9.00 - 10.15pm on Saturday 14th July Full details of coach tours and walks will be found on pages 5 and 6 This 12 voice choir of professional singers was founded by Dorset composer Graham Stansfield in 2014. Graham sadly passed away recently, and this concert is dedicated to him. It will be conducted by Andrew 1. Sun tour ‘...that wild weird western shore’ . King, the distinguished early music specialist. The programme is wide-ranging as the choir specialises in in a Coach Tour to St Juliot, Cornwall £...... variety of singing styles - from classical, to gospel and a cappella. Ticket includes lunch ...... Tickets @ £32.00 2. Mon walk A Casterbridge Walk ...... Tickets @ £5.00 £...... 3. Tues tour The Fiddler of the Reels ...... Tickets @ £12.00 £......

The New Hardy Players present ‘The Trumpet-Major’ 4. Weds tour Thomas Hardy’s Reredos, Windsor ...... Tickets @ £28.00 £...... at Kingston Maurward College at 7.30pm on Sunday 15th July 5. Weds walk Exploring ...... Tickets @ £12.00 £...... Thomas Hardy’s historical romance ‘The Trumpet-Major’ is presented in a colourful new production directed by Tim Laycock with Penny Levick. Featuring Harlequi- 6. Thurs tour The Far From the Madding Crowd ...... Tickets @ £12.00 £...... nade dancers from Dorchester Ballet directed by Lucy Bishop, newly composed music by Alastair Simpson, and country entertainments for all to enjoy. With a host 7. Thurs walk The Old Neighbour and The New: ...... Tickets @ £5.00 of colourful characters, and set against the background of the threat of invasion, A Hardy/Barnes Walk £...... the Battle of Trafalgar and the glowering presence of Old Boney (Napoleon Bona- 8. Thurs Tour Lock ‘em Up! Shire Hall Court & ...... Tickets @ £6.75 £...... parte), this rollicking and richly comic adaptation was first performed by in 1908, resurrected by Dorchester Drama in 1978, and is now brought up Cells to date by the New Hardy Players – don’t miss it! 9. Fri walk A Walk Round Jude’s Shaftesbury ...... Tickets @ £12.00 £...... This is an open-air production, so bring a picnic and a rug or a chair and hope that the sun shines! 10. Fri walk ‘The Strange House’: The poetry of ...... Tickets @ £5.00 £...... Max Gate Tickets: A Portrait of Tess/Mr Hardy’s War: £5.00+£6.30# Thomas Hardy and the Remarkable Thornycrofts in Peace and War. # National Trust - non-members admission charge - payable at venue TOTAL £ At The Corn Exchange at 7.30pm on Monday 16th July. TO HELP WITH CATERING, PLEASE COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING: The story of Hardy’s warm relationship with the Thornycroft family; from his friendship with the Are you vegetarian? (please indicate) YES / NO sculptor Hamo Thornycroft and his beautiful wife Agatha (a model for Tess), to his war service in A meal on the first and last evenings is included in the cost for Full Conference Members London and Dorchester and his influence on the only, but is available for all others at a cost of £10.00 for the first evening and for the last. It is young Siegfried Sassoon (also a Thornycroft), told important that we know your wishes in advance, as admission will be by ticket only.

through their letters, diaries and other writings. An entertainment by Andrew & Marilyn Leah, featur- If Full Conference Members are unable to attend either meal, please let us know, as follows: ing Tim Laycock, Alistair Chisholm and the Leahs. I am *able/not able to attend the meal on the *first/last evening. I am not a FULL Conference Member, but wish to attend the “first/*last evening meals Treasures of the Thomas Hardy Archive. meals and enclose my cheque for £______Signed______In the United Church at 2.00pm on Wednesday 18th July. Helen Gibson is Honorary Curator of the Thomas Hardy Collection in the Dorset County Museum. She was involved in writing the successful bid for Please detach and return this form, together with your deposit of £70 or full payment to: the inscription of the Hardy Archive and Collection to the UNESCO Memory The Thomas Hardy Society, c/o Dorset County Museum, High West Street, of the World Register of Important Literary Heritage. Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA, UK Helen holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Kent. She is a Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1305 251501, or Mike Nixon: +44 (01305 837331; Mobile: 07812 677485 member of the Hardy Society’s Council of Management. Email: [email protected] Website: www.hardysociety.org

4 21 Friday 20th July (cont) No.10: Walk ‘The Strange House ‘- the poetry of Max A.H. & M. Leah 1.30pm Gate A walk from the United Church, Dorchester to Max Gate where John Hayes (NT house manager) will give a talk about the house and Andrew and Marilyn Leah, with Furse Swann, will read some of the poems associated withThomas Hardy’s (and the Leahs’) former home Tickets: £5.00#.

The Thomas Hardy Society would like to thank the following organisations for their generous support of the Twenty-third International Thomas Hardy Festival & Conference : Dorchester BID The Duchy of Cornwall Dorchester Arts The Watercress Company West Dorset District Council Panasonic, Dorchester Dorchester Town Council Brewery Square Henry Ling Ltd Goulds Kingston Maurward College

..and the Hardy Country Group, comprising Dorset County Council/ South Dorset Ridgeway Trust West Dorset District Council The National Trust Dorset County Museum Exeter University Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty The Thomas Hardy Society Stinsford Parish Council

Goulds of Dorchester are kindly offering Festival & Conference delegates a 10% discount in their cafe and restaurant on production of a Festival & Conference ID card.

Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Thomas Hardy Society with some of these attractive items from the THS Shop, on sale during the Festival & Conference.

Tall, engraved Glencairn crystal tumbler £18.50.

Anniversary mugs with silver or gold motif: £9.00

20 5 Tim Laycock and The Mellstock Band Wednesday 18th July at The Corn Exchange at 8.00pm on Wednesday 18th July. No.4: Tour Thomas Hardy’s Reredos Helen Lange 8.30am Tim Laycock and The Mellstock Band entertain us with their unique combination of singing, instrumental A day trip to Windsor to visit All Saints Church to study the reredos designed by Hardy as a young music and the spoken word, encompassing west gal- architect, which was recently rediscovered and restored; followed by refreshments and then free lery harmony, traditional songs, glees, dances, time in Windsor to see the Castle and walk along the river to Eton College. Tickets:£28.00 marches, poems and stories, many of which would have been known and loved by Thomas Hardy. No. 5: Tour Exploring Egdon Heath Joy Wallace & Wendy Barter Smee 1.30pm Tim is currently the director of The New Hardy Players, and The Mellstock Band’s most recent recording is An opportunity to get into the countryside beyond Hardy’s Cottage and listen to Hardy’s poems in ‘The Thomas Hardy Songbook. the heath and woodland settings that inspired them. There will be an opportunity to visit Hardy’s # ‘A Pure Woman’ birthplace . Tickets: £12.00 th at Dorchester Town Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday 16 July th On Sept 27th 2018 the world premiere of a new play by Simon Reade based on Thursday 19 July Christopher Nicholson’s novel Winter will take place at the Dorchester Corn Exchange - the very venue where some of the key events in the play actually hap- No. 6: tour Far From the Madding Crowd Sue Clarke 1.30pm pened some 94 years earlier. After four Dorchester performances, the play will go Celebrating film and fiction in Wessex, and especially Far From the Madding Crowd films made in on a five week UK tour. 1967 and 2015. The tour will include locations and references to the many writers who have visited Mark Tattersall, Artistic Director of Dorchester Arts, will talk about the origins of the the Dorset area. Tickets:£12.00 play, its evolution from page to stage, and why he thinks it has such relevance in the 21st century. This will be followed by a rehearsed reading of excerpts from the No.7: Tour The Old Neighbour and The New- A Hardy/Barnes Walk 2.00pm play and an opportunity for questions and discussion. Led by Tony Fincham, Alastair Chisholm & Brian Caddy This session is free of charge, but is part of a double bill with: Tony will be joined by Alistair Chisholm and Brian Caddy in a 2.5 mile walk in Hardy’s footsteps The Glass Aisle: an evening of poetry with Paul Henry across the fields to Winterbourne Came Church, where William Barnes was rector and where he is at Dorchester Town Hall at 8.30pm on Thursday 16th July buried, returning via Barnes’ Rectory to visit Max Gate# . These houses and the walk over wooded Came Down resonate with both Hardy’s and Barnes’ poetry. Tickets: £5.00 Poet, songwriter and BBC presenter Paul Henry reads from his acclaimed collections The Brittle Sea and Boy Running (shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2016) before No.8: Tour Lock ‘em up! A tour of the Crown Court Harriet Still 4.15pm reading from his brand new poetry collection The Glass and prison cells. Aisle. From the sea of the poet’s childhood to the stillness of a Shire Hall Courthouse Museum recently opened to the public. It was here that Thomas Hardy canal walked in middle age, The Glass Aisle moves served as a magistrate between 1884 and 1919, as well as gathered ’novel padding’ from the between rage and stillness, past and present, music and cases he observed unfolding here. The Society has secured a special tour of this museum, with silence. In the book’s title poem, a telephone engineer Harriet Still, the museum manager, to look at the links between Thomas Hardy and this fascinating repairs a line that crosses a canal to the site of an old work- building. Tickets: £6.75 house. Tormented by the “voices of former inmates”, he unwittingly connects the centuries, setting free the Victorian Friday 20th July ghosts of poacher John Moonlight, lone parent Mary Tho- mas and a host of others who haunt the poem’s present-day No.9: Tour A Walk around Jude’s Shaftesbury Rod Drew 1.30pm walker.. Elsewhere, love poems, elegies and familiar coast-line What have a stonemason from Fawley, 4 obscure teachers, 2 Shastonians (one fictional), 3 Kings, “visitors”, Brown Helen, Catrin Sands… define a nineteen- a Saxon nunnery, 27 pubs, 1000's of buttons, carders, swanskin, pairs of soles and gloves, and sixties childhood; a long poem, ‘The Hesitant Song’, finally 'dental' Tom Cobley and ALL of US - in common? Find out on visiting Shaftesbury's “orchestrates silence” to convey the loss of a mother’s songs. 'Greensand Rock' tracing the footsteps of literary protagonists Jude, Sue, Gillingham and Phil- Lyrical and humane in its observations, The Glass Aisle is rich in the hallmarks readers have come to admire lotson. A one mile walk on firm surfaces part flat part undulating in England’s "highest in Henry’s poetry. Saxon hilltop town". Tickets £12.00

6 19 # admission charge may apply - see p.7 IMPORTANT NOTICES *These events are for full Conference & Festival members only* THE HORSE CATERING: to help with catering, please complete the form on page 7

SAFETY: Any outdoor activity can be hazardous. Participants are reminded to wear suitable WITH THE footwear and clothing and to exercise appropriate care on all walks and tours

WEBSITE: For further information and updates about the Conference and Festival events, RED UMBRELLA please look at the Society website: www.hardysociety.org

ADMISSION FEES: In some cases admission fees, where applicable, are added to the basic Home cooked breakfasts cost of the coach journey. Fees marked # are payable at the venue. (See booking form p.21) Homemade Special Lunches National Trust (NT) members make sure you bring membership cards if visiting Trust properties Afternoon Tea Full Take Away Service Available!!

Festival and Conference Walks and Tours Come and Try Us!! All tours begin from Top o’ Town Car Park at 1.30pm unless otherwise notified 10 High west Street, Dorchester DT1 1UJ 01305 262 019 Sunday 15h July No1: Tour ‘...that wild weird western shore’ Dr T Fincham & Prof. J Thomas 8.30am - a day trip to Cornwall By coach to the Old Rectory, where Hardy first met Emma in March 1870 - thence to St Juliot Church - and down to Boscastle Harbour,from where we will explore the Valency Valley; finally visiting Beeny Cliff and ‘The Cliff without a Name’; all accompanied by plentiful poetry, biographical details and readings from . Ticket includes lunch. Tickets: £32.00

Monday 16th July No. 2: Walk The Casterbridge Walk Alistair Chisholm 1.30pm

A two-hour walk starting from the Town Pump, taking in ‘Durnover’ Ten-hatches Weir, Grey’s Bridge, the County Gaol, Hangman’s Cottage, the Roman Town House, Hardy’s Statue and High

Tuesday 17th July No.3: Tour The Fiddler of the Reels Dr Tony Fincham 1.30pm A musical exploration of the territory where Mop Ollamoor exercised his acoustic magnetism over Car’line Aspent: two miles walking from The Traveller’s Rest (Duck Dairy Farm) above the Frome to Lower Mellstock and on to Stinsford Church, with dancing, as appropriate to the fiddles of Ruth and Colin Thompson, who will recreate the tunes of this ‘village Paganini’ Tickets: £12.00

18 7 The Academic Programme

Academic Director: Prof. Jane Thomas (Professor of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Hull).

Jane Thomas is Professor of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Hull, Director of the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies and a Re- search Fellow of the Henry Moore Institute. She is the author of Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent and Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self as well as several articles and chapters on the life and work of Thomas Hardy. She also publishes on Victorian Literature, Art and Sculpture, and contemporary women writ- ers including Winifred Holtby, Michèle Roberts, Caryl Churchill and Carol Ann Duffy. She has directed the academic programme of the last five international biennial Thomas Hardy Conferences in Dorchester and has been a member of the Council of Management of the Thomas Hardy Society since 2009. She is currently co-editing the Norton Critical Edition of Tess of the d’Urbervilles (with Phillip Mallett) and editing Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Thomas Hardy. She is also working on a critical appreciation of Penelope Mortimer and an article on the twin practices of writing and painting in the work of Beryl Bainbridge.

Monday 16th July, 9.15am Professor Francis O’Gorman (University of Edinburgh). ‘Hardy getting out of....’ Francis O’Gorman was educated as C.S. Deneke Organ Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall Oxford. He remains an active musician. After 16 years teaching at the University of Leeds, he was appointed Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. He has particular interests in nineteenth-century literature including Coleridge, Ruskin, Swinburne, and Trol- lope, and in psychoanalysis. Francis O’Gorman has written or edited 24 books (including 6 on or by Ruskin) and his most recent publications editions of Trol- lope’s The Way We Live Now (OUP, 2016) and Orley Farm (OUP, 2018), He is currently editing The Stones of Venice and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone for OUP and has just completed a book called Liberalism in Education: The Monopoly of an Idea for the New York offices of Bloomsbury.

Monday 16th July, 6.00pm; Professor Angelique Richardson and Helen Angear (University of Exeter) ‘Dear Mr Hardy...’ For the past year and more the University of Exeter has been involved in the fascinating project of digitising all the 5,000 letters sent to Thomas Hardy in the Dorset County Museum collection. In this session Angelique and Helen will share a selection of these letters with us. Angelique Richardson is Professor of English at the University of Exeter. She publishes on nineteenth- and THE MAID ON THE SHORE early twentieth-century literature, culture and science and is particularly interested in the history of class and “A story of fair passions, and bountiful pities, race relations. She is currently writing The Politics of Thomas Hardy: Biology, Culture and Environment for and loves without stains.” OUP and she leads the education strategy of the Hardy Country Partnership. Angelique also runs the Dor- Emma’s novella was probably started in 1872 or 1873 at about the mid-point of her court- chester Literary Lives lecture series in collaboration with Dorset County Museum and the National Trust. ship with Thomas Hardy - at the time he was writing A Pair of Blue Eyes. Consequently the two stories share a number of common threads interwoven into their locations, plots and Helen Angear is a Collaborative Doctoral Award researcher at the University of Exeter, funded by the Arts & characterisations. Emma tried several times to have the novella published, but was unsuc- Humanities Research Council and Dorset County Museum. She is working on the Hardy archive and her cessful. Now the Thomas Hardy Society publishes it for the first time in a paper-back edition. PhD is called 'An Epistolary Thomas Hardy: Proximity and Distance'. Helen is also an Associate Lecturer at Price £3.00 Exeter College.

8 17 Monday 16th July 11.00am: Professor Mark Ford (UCL): Thomas Hardy - Half a Londoner.

Mark Ford is Professor of English and American Literature at UCL. His collections of poetry include Landlocked (1992), Soft Sift (2001), Six Children (2011), and Enter, Fleeing (2018). He has also published two monographs, Raymond Roussel and the Repub- lic of Dreams (2000) and Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner (2016), and three collections of essays. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. A selection of his poetry is available at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/mark- ford; and an ongoing series of podcasts made with Seamus Perry about twentieth-century poets (soon to include Thomas Hardy) is available on the London Review of Books website https://www.lrb.co.uk .

Tuesday 17th July, 9.15am: Professor Linda Shires (Yeshiva University, New York)

Hardy’s Poems and His Reader: The Power of Unmaking. Linda M. Shires, the David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and Chair at Stern College, Yeshiva University, has published widely in Victorian studies, served on the Advisory Board of PMLA, and held the Guggenheim Fellowship. She has edited three of Thomas Hardy’s novels and published ten essays on his work. Her most recent books include Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (2009) and (Ed.) Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U.C. Knoepflmacher. (2016). Her current book pro- ject treats self-illustrated texts of the period, including Wessex Poems.

Thursday 19th July, 9.15am: Professor Jane Thomas (University of Hull)

‘The Mower and the Mayor, Thomas Hardy, Hamo Thornycroft and the ‘pregnant moment.’’ Jane Thomas is Professor of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Hull, Director of the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies and a Research Fellow of the Henry Moore Institute. She is currently co-editing the Norton Critical Edition of Tess of the d’Urbervilles (with Philtlip Mallett) and editing Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes for the Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Thomas Hardy. She is also working on a critical appreciation of Penelope Mortimer and an article on the twin practices of writing and painting in the work of Beryl Bainbridge.

Friday 20th July, 9.15am: Dr Sara Lyons (University of Kent) ‘Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains.’

Sara Lyons is a Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent. Her first book, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt, and Secularisation was published by Legenda in 2016. She is currently the Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, Liter- ary Culture, Meritocracy, and the Assessment of Intelligence in Britain and America 1880-1920.

16 9 International Call for Papers Panels Friday 20th July A series of short papers given by some of the world’s foremost Hardy scholars. 9.15am Lecture by Dr Sara Lyons, University of Kent: Convenor: Prof. Mary Rimmer, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains assisted by JoAnne Mink and Phillip Mallett. 11.00am Call for Papers: sessions 7 & 8 (see pp.10-11) Dr Mary Rimmer has edited Hardy's (Penguin), published articles on Hardy, and collaborated on editions of four early Trinidad novels (E.L. Joseph's Warner 1.30pm 9. Walk: A Walk round Jude’s Shaftesbury with Rod Drew. Arundell, Mrs. William Noy Wilkins' The Slave Son, the anonymous Adolphus: A Tale, and Tickets: £5.00 Stephen N. Cobham's Rupert Gray: A Study in Black and White). She is working on a 2.00pm 10. The Strange House: A Walk to Max Gate & Poetry associated with the book on allusion and culture in Hardy and on an edition of The Trumpet-Major for Cam- house with John Hayes, Andrew & Marilyn Leah & Furse Swann. bridge University Press. Tickets: £5.00#

Tuesday 17th July 11.00am 7.00pm Farewell Supper at the Dorchester Town Hall.# 1. Hardy of the late nineteenth century: Departures, disintegrations, returns 8.30pm A Barn Dance’ with Ruth and Colin Thompson at the Dorchester Town Hall.# Samantha Crain, 'Little Father Time: Hardy's Changeling Child and the Limits of the Natural' Roger Ebbatson, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Fin de Siècle' Saturday 21st July Rena Jackson, 'Failed Emigration in Hardy’s Late Fiction: A Critique of Imperial Domesticity' 9.30am 51st Annual General Meeting of the Thomas Hardy Society 2. The material culture of Wessex/Dorset Mark Chutter, '"My Mr Thomas Hardy": Literary friends—Horace, May, Florence and Fordington 11.00 Closing Speaker: Terence Stamp. Tickets: £10.00 Old Vicarage' Kester Rattenbury, 'The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy Architect' Peter Robson, 'The Tess Durbeyfield Song Book'

Wednesday 18th July 9.15am 3. Bodies seen, bodies censored Emily Halliwell-MacDonald, '”On the wings of the hours”: Visions of Labour in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles' Andrew Hewitt, '“I wish I had not leant so”: The Censorship of Body Language in Hardy' Hélène Edelin-Joubert, 'Bodily needs and functions in Tess of the D’Urbervilles'

4. Listening and loss A. J. Nickerson, 'Poetry Listening to Itself' Paul J. Niemeyer, 'The Byronic Hardy: Transforming Intimate Tragedy into Cosmic Catastrophe in Hardy's Poetry' Rebecca Spence, 'Thomas Hardy's Rhythms'

Wednesday 18th July 11.00am 5. Misogyny, place and colour: Three ways of reading A Pair of Blue Eyes Tracy Hayes, '"No man ever loved another as I did thee": Hardy, Misogyny and the Homosocial' Michael Nisbet, 'A Dozen Double Takes: The Dorset Origin of A Pair of Blue Eyes' Katrina Sire, 'Coloring A Pair of Blue Eyes: Thomas Hardy and a Sense of the Real'

6. Violation and violence in Tess Emma Burris-Janssen, '"I have killed him!': Avowing Criminality in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles' Shanta Dutta, '"I am one of a long row only": Contemporary retellings of Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles'

10 15 Wednesday 18th July Friday, 20th July 11.00am 7. Voices, hands and memories 8.30am 4. Tour: Thomas Hardy’s Reredos: a coach trip to Windsor to visit All Galia Benziman, '"Still corporeally imminent": Hardy and the conflicted return of the dead' Saints’s Church and Windsor Castle. Led by Helen Lange Catherine Charlwood, '"Hands behind hands": The Materiality of Musical Memories in Thomas Tickets: £28.00 Hardy’s Poetry' 9.15am Call for Papers, sessions 3 & 4 (see p.10) Karin Koehler, '"Alike and Unlike": Revisiting Boscastle and Great-Orme’s Head' 11.00am Call for Papers, sessions 5 & 6 (see p.10) 8. Hardy and/as education Zane Linde, '"Maiden No More": Thomas Hardy in Translation, Between Soviet Censorship and 1.30pm 5. Walk: Exploring Egdon Heath: Propaganda' led by Joy Wallis and Wendy Barter Smee Tickets: £5.00 Stephanie Meek, '"A Story for Boys": Education and Morality in Hardy’s Our Exploits at West 2.00pm Talk: Treasures of The Thomas Hardy Archive, by Helen Gibson Poley' Jonathan Memel, 'Thomas Hardy's Education by Correction' 6.30pm ‘I leant upon a coppice gate,’: A performance of poetry accompa- nied by harp. Virginia & Florence Astley. Tickets: £5.00 Virginia was 2017’s ‘Writer in Residence’ at Hardy’s birthplace; she and Dr Tracy Hayes is the organiser of the Post-Graduate and General Reader Seminars; she Florence perform regularly at Max Gate. also has a leading role in the Call for Papers seminars. She is an early career researcher with an interest in Hardy and Victorian Masculinity. Her new project focuses on Gothic repre- 8.00pm Tim Laycock and the Mellstock Band sentations of masculinity in the stories of Hardy, Edgar Allen Poe and M.R. James. She has The Corn Exchange published essays and book reviews in a variety of journals, is the Student Co-ordinator and Thursday 19th July Social Media Advisor to the Thomas Hardy Society and Director of the Publications Checklist for the Thomas Hardy Association. She also manages the THS Facebook page. 9.15am Lecture by Prof. Jane Thomas, University of Hull: The Mower and the Mayor, Thomas Hardy, Hamo Thornycroft and Tuesday 17th July, 2.00pm the ‘pregnant moment.’ Post-Graduate Seminar & Reception: 11.00am Question Time: chaired by Andrew Hewitt; panel: Jane Thomas, Phillip Organiser: Dr Tracy Hayes Mallett, Tony Fincham and Jonathan Memel. The Thomas Hardy Society prides itself on promoting and disseminating the research interests of students worldwide, regardless of age or level of education. This seminar provides a chance for 1.30pm 6. Tour: Far From the Madding Crowd, led by Sue Clarke students and early career researchers to present their studies and to receive constructive feed- Tickets:£12.00 back and advice. The exchange of ideas and being able to network with others involved in Hardy studies is integral to the learning process, and this seminar will also provide advice on the educa- 2.00pm 7. Walk: The Old Neighbour and The New - A Hardy/Barnes Walk tional system itself and future prospects for researchers. It is an informal event that is followed by a led by Tony Fincham, Alistair Chisholm & Brian Caddy Tickets £5.00 reception at Maumbury Rings where we have the chance to indulge in drinks, nibbles, and further 2.00pm The General Reader Seminar with Dr Tracy Hayes (see p.11) conversation. 4.15pm 8. Tour: Lock ‘em Up!: a tour of the Shire Hall Crown Court and the cells below with Harriet Still. Shire Hall, High West Street Tickets: £6.75 Thursday 19th July, 2.00pm 6.00pm A Hardy Quiz with Harriet Still General Reader Seminar: Shire Hall Cafe, High West St. Refreshments available Organiser: Dr Tracy Hayes General enthusiasts make up a large percentage of the Hardy Society membership, and this semi- 7.30pm A Pure Woman - a talk and reading of extracts from Simon Reade’s new nar is aimed at people who wish to share their love of Hardy and his works with like-minded peo- play based on Christopher Nicholson’s novel Winter. ple. Professional academics are not present, allowing a relaxed atmosphere where everyone is Dorchester Town Hall. welcome to discuss favourite aspects of Hardy's oeuvre, whether it be stories, novels, poems, Free of charge but part of a double bill with: essays or architecture! We encourage the sharing of experiences and what triggered your interest 8.30pm The Glass Aisle. An Evening of Poetry with Paul Henry in Hardy. This is a popular session where we enjoy swapping stories and discovering fascinating Dorchester Town Hall Tickets: £10.00 facts from our members worldwide.

14 11 The Twenty-third International & 50th Anniversary 10.00am Morning Service at Stinsford Church; Preacher: Rev. Mark Phillips, Vicar of Charminster & Stinsford Thomas Hardy Festival and Conference 12.00 noon The Thomas Hardy Country Fair At Kingston Maurward College Saturday 14th July - Saturday 21st July 7.30pm The Trumpet Major by the New Hardy Players at Kingston Maurward Conference Chair: Tony Fincham Tickets : £12.50/£8.50 (u18) from Dorchester Arts (The Corn Exchange) or TIC. Academic Director: Prof. Jane Thomas (University of Hull) th Conference Secretary: Mike Nixon Tours Co-ordinator: Pat Withers Monday 16 July 9.15am Lecture by Prof. Francis O’Gorman, University of Edinburgh: In keeping with the spirit of the 1968 Thomas Hardy Festival the first two days of the Hardy getting out of.... (Hardy’s Poetry) 2018 Festival and Conference will be hosted by Kingston Maurward College, after that 11.00am Lecture by Prof. Mark Ford, University College London (UCL): we move (on Monday 14th July) to our usual venue, the United Church in South Thomas Hardy - Half a Londoner Street, Dorchester; other events as indicated. FULL CONFERENCE MEMBERS are eligible to attend all lectures and entertainments on production of their Conference 1.30pm 2. Walk: The Casterbridge Walk with Alistair Chisholm Tickets: £5.00 name tags, and have priority when booking excursions. 2.00pm The Rushworth Recordings: A selection of the many recordings of Tickets for the individual events for non-Conference members are available from the Society Society events made by Peter Rushworth over many years, selected and office, on the door, or at the Box Office at the United Church (during the Conference week). presented by Andy Worth Tickets for lectures are: £8, (or £15 for two lectures) & for evening events: £8 (THS mem- bers)/£10 (others), unless otherwise indicated. A Day Rate: £45 (membs) & £50 (others) is 6.00pm Dear Mr Hardy: a workshop on the letters to Thomas Hardy, based on the digitisation of over 5,000 letters undertaken by the University of Exeter. also available. With Prof. Angelique Richardson and Helen Angear. Booking forms for full Conference & Festival membership and the individual excursions are attached. 7.30pm A Portrait of Tess/Mr Hardy’s War: Please visit the website (www.hardysociety.org) for changes/updates to the programme Thomas Hardy and the Remarkable Thornycrofts in Peace and War. an entertainment by Andrew & Marilyn Leah, with Tim Laycock & Alistair Chisholm in conjunction with Dorchester Arts. PROGRAMME At the Corn Exchange. Tickets: £12.00 Tuesday 17th July *Asterisked events are for full Conference members only. Julian Nangle - bookseller extraordinaire - will be in attendance from 8.30am, with a wide Tours and walks: see pages 5 & 6 for further details selection of his extensive collection of Hardy-related books. Monday to Saturday: Conference announcements by Mike Nixon at 9am 9.15am Lecture by Prof Linda Shires, Yeshiva University, New York: Saturday 14thJuly Hardy’s Poems and His Reader: The Power of Unmaking From 12 noon Registration at Kingston Maurward College. Refreshment facilities 11.00am Call for Papers, sessions 1 & 2 (see p.10) are available and delegates may purchase light lunches. 1.30pm 3. Walk: The Fiddler of the Reels led by Tony Fincham and featuring *6.00 for *Festival & Conference Launch Musicians Ruth and Colin Thompson Tickets: £12.00 6.45pm Reception and dinner for delegates and guests. 2.00pm Postgraduate Forum & Welcome Reception with Tracy Hayes (see p.11) Kingston Maurward College 6.00pm Film: Far From the Madding Crowd (1967): a showing of the best known 9.00pm Entertainment from the Wessex Consort Choir. version of the film starring Terence Stamp, Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Kingston Maurward College Tickets: £10.00 Peter Finch. Plaza Cinema, Dorchester Tickets:£5.00 th Sunday 15 July Terence Stamp will be our closing speaker on the Saturday 21st July. 8.30am 1. ‘....that wild weird western shore’, a coach trip to 9.30pm Poetry at Max Gate: An informal poetry session in the drawing room of St. Juliot, Cornwall Thomas Hardy’s home led by Dr Tony Fincham. with Dr T Fincham & Prof. J Thomas Tickets: £32.00 Refreshments will be available. Tickets: £5.00 12 13