1. Thomas Hardy, The Life of Thomas Hardy, ed. Michael Millgate (London: Macmillan Press, 1984), p. 22.
2. See Derek Howse, Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), p. 109.
3. See C.A. Schott, ‘Standard Railroad Time’, Nature, 29 (15 November 1883), p. 70.
4. Michael Millgate, ed., Thomas Hardy’s Public Voice: the Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose (Oxford: Clarendon, 2001), p. i.
5. Douglas Brown, Thomas Hardy (London: Longman, 1954), p. 65.