Don’t want to sound superficial, but the utter hypocrisy of all those literary geniuses is quite tiresome: the same “seeking-for-inspiration-romance” all over again. Can’t read him anyway: too pompous for my liking.
By the end of the century Emma – deeply hurt by Hardy’s critique of marriage in Jude the Obscure (1895), which she read as a personal attack – was “keeping separate” in two rooms in the attic. Here she would spend the rest of her life writing poetry and prose of an increasingly mystical bent. The couple had no children; though they continued to occupy the same house, they hardly spoke.What was worse, while dismissing Emma’s writing, the middle-aged Hardy had developed a wounding habit of falling for younger women whose artistic ambitions he encouraged. ©
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