1. Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower: A Romance, edited with Introduction and Notes by Sally Shuttleworth (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1999), pp. 4–5
2. Andrew Radford, Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003), p. 113
3. With the exceptions of UGT and WB, TT is also the shortest of Hardy’s fourteen novels. Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (London: Bodley Head, 1971), pp. 145–93
4. Simon Gatrell, ‘Middling Hardy’, Thomas Hardy Annual No. 4 (London: Macmillan, 1986), pp. 70–90
5. Richard H. Taylor, The Neglected Hardy: Thomas Hardy’s Lesser Novels (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982)