Starts 18:00 until 19:00
Dorset Museum, High West Street, Dorchester DT1 1XA
Lecture by Paula Byrne on her biography - Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
Date: Friday 30 May 2025
Time: 6:00pm
Location: The Victorian Gallery, Dorset Museum
Ticket Prices:
Standard Adult - £20
DHNAS Member - £18
Thomas Hardy Society Member - £18
Student - £10
*Ticket price to include a glass of wine
BOOK DIRECT with Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Event in partnership with Dorset Museum
Mark Chutter, THS Chairman & Academic Director, will introduce Paula Byrne and lead a Q&A session afterwards.
In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne offers a fresh perspective on Hardy’s life, exploring it through the lens of the women who shaped him—his formidable mother, devoted sisters, first loves, long-suffering wives, and inspiring muses. Through their eyes, we see the man behind the novels, a figure both enthralled by and at odds with the women around him.