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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses TOLKIEN-HISTORY OF MIDDLE EARTH families and friendships will beThomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women? In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re examines Hardys life through the eyes of the women who made him mother, sisters,