[Hardy-l] Findon Sheep Fair

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Agreed, Keith. I made no claim as to the reliability of this site.

I simply stand by my doubts that a youth of Hardy's period who remained 
unmarried until his thirties yet who courted many a young woman to which 
even Millgate accords factuality would not have had his fair share of 
"accidents." I believe it is "Neutral Tones" among other poems into which 
several eminent scholars have read the revelation of pregnancy.*

As I say, jury's out in my book.
Best
Rosemarie
* Interesting that this should come up at the same time as the 
"autobiographical" quotation.
PS This was not your point of course but I should add that I think TH would 
have been the last person to condemn a source on the basis of mispelling 
and misplaced details: his own family were guilty of same.
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  The website proceeds by innuendo and manifest inaccuracy.  For example, 
the only paragraph I could find that even obliquely implied that Hardy 
might have had a child by Eliza reads:
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Rosemarie Morgan
Research Fellow, Yale University
President, The Thomas Hardy Association
Editor, The Hardy Review
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