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Robert William Victor Gittings CBE (1 February 1911 – 18 February 1992), was an English writer, biographer, BBC Radio producer, playwright and poet With Jo Manton, he wrote Dorothy Wordsworth (1985) and the same year published his last book of verse, People, Places, Personal Private life.

Views Hardy's later years as an extension of his youthful struggle to disguise his peasant origins and the facts of his self-education and investigates the ironies that characterized his relationships with women.

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Robert Gittings, a veteran biographer who has written extensively on Keats, knows how to gather facts and is scrupulous .

Robert Gittings, a veteran biographer who has written extensively on Keats, knows how to gather facts and is scrupulous in distinguishing them from fancies; he writes with a strong feel for the passage and texture of common life. As a solitary, introspective boy Hardy absorbed a family passion for music from a grandfather who had built up a choir in the parish of Stinsford and from a father who sang tenor. Hardy's first recollection was of being given a small accordion by his father on his 4th birthday.

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The standard biographies are Robert Gittings Young Thomas Hardy (Penguin Books, 1975); Robert Gittings The Older Hardy (Penguin Books . This book was written largely by Thomas Hardy himself.

The standard biographies are Robert Gittings Young Thomas Hardy (Penguin Books, 1975); Robert Gittings The Older Hardy (Penguin Books, 1980); Michael Milgate, Thomas Hardy (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 43. oogle Scholar. 5. Florence Emily Hardy, The Life Of Thomas Hardy 1840–1928 (London, 1962), p. 386. (This book was written largely by Thomas Hardy himself. 6. J. Hillis Miller, Thomas Hardy: Distance And Desire (Oxford University Press, 1970), esp. ch. 7. Florence Emily Hardy, op. ci. pp. 377-8.