The Withered Arm
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Hardy's The Withered Arm is a gothic tale of suspense and coincidence, and witchcraft. Hardy recalled a time when there was still living an old woman who, for the cure of some eating disease, had been taken in her youth to have her 'blood turned' by a c...
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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