1. Charles J. Longman, editor of Longman’s Magazine, to Richard Jefferies, quoted in Samuel J. Looker and Chrichton Porteus, Richard Jefferies, Man of the Fields: A Biography and Letters (London, 1965) pp. 125–6.
2. See also Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (London, 1971) p. 206.
3. Richard Gray, The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South (London, 1977) pp. 3, 7–8.
4. Merryn Williams, Thomas Hardy and Rural England (London, 1972) p. 90.
5. And see the later essay, Merryn and Raymond Williams, ‘Hardy and Social Class’, in Thomas Hardy: The Writer and his Background, ed. N. Page (London, 1980) p. 36, where Tess’s education is placed in its true perspective.