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Author:
Thomas Hardy
Biography Title:
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Page No.:
130
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
The Macmillan Press Ltd
First Published:
n/a
Clothing:
Shirt; Cap;
Colours:
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Material:
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Quotation:
[IX, 1879, June 9] To the International Literary Congress at the rooms of the Society of Arts. Met M. de Lesseps. A few days afterwards to the Soirée Musicale at the Hanover Square Club, to meet members of the Literary Congress and the Comédie Française: A large gathering ... I was a total stranger, and wondered why I was there: many others were total strangers to everybody else; ... A little old Frenchman, however, who bustled about in a skullcap and frilled shirt, seemed to know everybody."