![]() Jude the Obscure was the novelist’s swan song. He gave up fiction and for the remaining thirty years of his life wrote only poetry. ![]() The critics were shocked and accused Hardy of ‘immorality’. It challenged traditional views on class, education, religion, love, sex, and marriage. Jude is a key example of the so-called New Fiction, the transitional stage in the development of the English novel between the Victorian and the modern era, and is full of the anxieties of entering a new age. Today the novel has an iconic status in the history of English literature. ![]() Hardy penned the manuscript of Jude the Obscure between 1893-1895. To mark his birthday the autograph manuscript of Jude the Obscure and the proofs for the first book edition with his own hand-written corrections have gone on display in Gallery 3. Please note that this news article is over 4 months old.Ĭheck with the museum before visiting if this refers to objects on display. ![]()
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