The Library Word Search Plus February 2021 A Thomas Hardy Special Answer the questions to find the words 1. Thomas Hardy was born in ____________, Dorset in 1840 2. At the age of 18 he became an apprentice _________ 3. His novel “_________ Remedies” was published in 1871 4. and in 1872 came “Under the _________ Tree” 5. “A Pair of ____ Eyes” appeared in 1873 6. Thomas’s first major success appeared in 1874: “Far from the _______ Crowd” 7. Julie Christie played _________ Everdene in the 1967 film version of this novel 8. 1874 saw Thomas marry ____ Lavinia Gifford 9. Ethelberta _______ is the central character in the 1876 “The Hand of Ethelberta” 10. The mysterious ‘Reddleman’ _______ Venn appears in the 1878 “The Return of the Native” 11. ______ Derriman is the unattractive suitor in the 1880 “The Trumpet Major” 12. Paula Power is Hardy’s heroine in the 1881 “The _________” 13. In 1882 Thomas introduced the unhappy Lady _______ Constantine in “Two on a Tower” 14. 1886 saw publication of one of Hardy’s major works “The Mayor of ___________” 15. The tragic Giles ___________ appears in the 1887 novel “The Woodlanders” 16. “The ________ Arm” is one of the stories in the 1888 collection “Wessex Tales” 17. The romantic _____ Clare appears in the famous 1891 book “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” 18. _________ Kinski played ‘Tess’ in the 1979 film version of the book 19. “The Well-Beloved” appeared in “The ___________ London News” in 1892, before it was published in book form in 1897 20. The infamous “____ the Obscure” appeared in 1895 21. 1889 saw the publication of Thomas’s first book of verse “______ Poems” 22. From 1904 to 1908 came the publication of his blank verse drama in three instalments “The _______” 23. Following the death of Emma in 1912, in 1914 Thomas married Florence ______ 24. Hardy’s last volume of poetry “______ Words” was published posthumously in 1928, the year of his death. Now find the words on the grid - horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backwards! L X N O T P M A H K C O R B F E T I L L U S T R A T E D A E G C X P Q J G Z N V W Z E T S N E M O L Q U A Z I Z G S H T A T A A L O E D N V D R P S U D I S Y D C Z T E I E E A H S U H S Y I D E Z R E M E R E X G C P D Z R I B P T M N A B O D R O Z B O R N O T A W T A Y A A Z O X E X F G E Z O E Z R L J R S T W E S S E X O G E O E N P S W I T H E R E D U Q G E J A J S S A T S A N L Q A G X C H I C K E R E L B F O J I Y F W I N T E R S T S A N Y D 1. 9. 17. 2. 10. 18. 3. 11. 19. 4. 12. 20. 5. 13. 21. 6. 14. 22. 7. 15. 23. 8. 16. 24. .