ABSTRACT

The compilation of this partially annotated enumerative primary and secondary bibliography of the creative achievements of Barbara Hardy [BH] presented some problems, inevitably given a career of such length and productivity that extends from the late 1940s and continues into the second decade of the twenty-first century. Particularly difficult to document have been BH’s radio and television appearances and reviews for weeklies such as the New Statesman and the Spectator. The transfer in the last two decades of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first century of print materials to electronic databases led to the loss of much information. Further, libraries increasingly move books and journals to depositories or, as it euphemistically is said, recycle them: these processes do not make the bibliographer’s task easier.