1. Henry James, Literary Reviews and Essays on American, English, and French Literature, ed., Albert Mordell (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1957), p. 294.
2. Alan Friedman in The Turn of the Novel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), p. 39, argues that the novel takes the form of the taming of the shrew.
3. Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader, Second Series (1932; London: The Hogarth Press, 1948), p. 251.
4. John Bayley, Introduction to Far from the Madding Crowd (New Wessex edition, 1974), p. 11.
5. See Havelock Ellis, ‘Thomas Hardy’s Novels’, Westminster Review (April 1883). Reprinted in Cox, ed., The Critical Heritage, pp. 103–32.