Rosemarie Morgan is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at St Andrews University, UK. She Is President of The Thomas Hardy Association, Vice President of the Thomas Hardy Society, and Editor of
the biannual Hardy Review. Among her Publications are Cancelled Words: Rediscovering Thomas Hardy (1999) and Student Companion to Thomas Hardy (2006).
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