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Iza Duffus Hardy
A pastel sketch of a white woman with auburn braided hair, seated in an upholstered armchair, wearing a dark dress and a gold shawl
Ford Madox Brown, "Portrait of Miss Iza Duffus Hardy" (1872)
Born(1850-10-11)11 October 1850
Enfield
Died30 August 1922(1922-08-30) (aged 71)
Paddington, London
Occupation(s)Writer, novelist
Parent(s)Thomas Duffus Hardy
Mary Anne Hardy

Iza Duffus Hardy (11 October 1850 – 30 August 1922) was a prolific British novelist and travel writer, associated with the pre-Raphaelite artistic community.

Early life

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Iza Duffus Hardy was born in Enfield, the daughter of archivist Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804–1878) and author Mary Anne Hardy (née MacDowell; 1824–1891).[1][2][3] She was "educated chiefly at home",[4] by her parents.[5] Thomas Hardy believed her to be a distant relation, referring to her as "my very remote consanguinean" in a personal notebook in 1886.[6]

Career

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Hardy was a prolific novelist and short story writer. Books by Hardy include Not Easily Jealous (1872),[7] Between Two Fires (1873), For the Old Love's Sake (1875),[8] Glencairn (1877),[9] Only a Love-Story (1877),[10] A Broken Faith (1878),[11] Friend and Lover (1880),[12] Love, Honour, and Obey (1881),[13] The Love that He Passed By (1884),[14] Hearts or Diamonds? (1885), The Westhorpe Mystery (1886), The Girl He Did Not Marry (1887),[15] Love In Idleness (1887),[16] A New Othello (1890),[17] A Woman's Loyalty (1893), In the Springtime of Love (1895), MacGilleroy's Millions (1900), The Lesser Evil (1901), Man, Woman, and Fate (1902), The Master of Madrono Hills (1904),[18] A Trap of Fate (1906), and The Silent Watchers (1910).[19] Her shorter works, comprising stories, sketches, and serialized versions of her novels, appeared in Tinsley's Magazine,[20] London Society, Belgravia, The Gentleman's Magazine,[21] and The Strand Magazine.[22]

Hardy and her mother traveled to the United States several times, touring the South,[23] the West,[24] and Florida,[25] and visiting with prominent Americans including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes.[5] She wrote about her travels in Between Two Oceans (1884)[26] and Oranges and Alligators (1886).[27]

Hardy was in the social orbit of the pre-Raphaelite artists.[25][28] Ford Madox Brown made a large pastel portrait of Hardy in 1872.[25]

Personal life

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Hardy lived in Maida Vale for much of her adult life. She received a government pension after her mother's death, in recognition of her father's career in the Public Record Office.[29] She was skilled at needlework and other handcrafts.[5] She was briefly engaged to American poet Joaquin Miller, during his time in London in 1873.[30] She died in a Paddington nursing home in 1922, aged 71 years.[25] Ford Madox Brown's 1872 portrait of Hardy is in the collection of Birmingham Museums.[31] Two letters by Hardy to Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti are in the Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana at the College of William & Mary.[28]

References

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  1. ^ Martin, G. H. (2004). "Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1804–1878), historian and archivist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12292. Retrieved 18 April 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Sutherland, John (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-8047-1842-4.
  3. ^ Who's who. A. & C. Black. 1903. p. 604.
  4. ^ Newnes, Sir George (1893). "Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives: Iza Duffus Hardy". The Strand Magazine. 5: 473.
  5. ^ a b c Black, Helen C. (1893). Notable Women Authors of the Day: Biographical Sketches. D. Bryce & Son. pp. 197–209.
  6. ^ Hardy, Thomas (17 June 1978). Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy. Springer. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-349-03597-7.
  7. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus. (1872). Not easily jealous; a novel. Collection of British authors,v. 1256-1257. Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz.
  8. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1877). For the old love's sake, by the author of 'Not easily jealous'. by I.D. Hardy. London: A. H. Moxon.
  9. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1877). Glencairn. Hurst.
  10. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1877). Only a love-story. London: Hurst and Blackett.
  11. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1878). A broken faith: In three volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough Street.
  12. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1880). Friend and lover.
  13. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus. (1884). Love, honour, and obey ... London: F.V. White & co.
  14. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1904). The Love that He Passed By, Etc. Digby, Long & Company.
  15. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1887). The girl he did not marry. F. V. White & Company.
  16. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus. (1887). Love in idleness; the story of a winter in Florida. London: White.
  17. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1890). A new Othello. F. V. White & Company.
  18. ^ "The Master of Madrono Hills". The Bookman. 27: 14. Christmas 1904.
  19. ^ Bassett, Troy J. "Author Information: Iza Duffus Hardy". At the Circulating Library. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  20. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (November 1883). "A Trip to Blackwell's Island". Tinsley's Magazine. 33: 474–479.
  21. ^ Plarr, Victor (1895). Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries. G. Routledge and Sons, limited. p. 390.
  22. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1893). "In the Shadow of the Sierras". The Strand Magazine. 5: 435–445.
  23. ^ Fant, Jennie Holton (27 February 2019). Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865–1947: From the Ruins of War to the Rise of Tourism. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-940-8.
  24. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus (1906). "Pike's Peak and the Garden of the Gods". In Singleton, Esther (ed.). Greatest Wonders of the World. Christian Herald. pp. 263–267.
  25. ^ a b c d Ayad, Sara (6 February 2020). "Iza Duffus Hardy: a forgotten author who mixed with the Pre-Raphaelites". Art UK. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  26. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus. (1884). Between two oceans, or, Sketches of American travel. London: Hurst and Blackett.
  27. ^ Hardy, Iza Duffus. (1887). Oranges and alligators. London: Ward and Downey.
  28. ^ a b "Correspondence: Hardy, Iza". Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana, College of William & Mary. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  29. ^ Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. 1901. p. 58.
  30. ^ Twain, Mark (1997). Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5. University of California Press. pp. 408, note 14. ISBN 978-0-520-20822-3.
  31. ^ Brown, Ford Madox (1872). "Portrait of Miss Iza Duffus Hardy". Birmingham Museums. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
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