ABSTRACT
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hardy wrote more than three dozen short stories for the periodical market, establishing during that period long-lived relationships with weekly newspapers and magazines important to Victorian publishing history. The British and American periodicals varied widely, including illustrated weeklies such as the Illustrated London News and the Graphic, quarterlies such as the New Quarterly Magazine, monthlies such as the English Illustrated Magazine, Blackwood’s, and Harper’s, and regional newspapers such as the Manchester Weekly Times and the Detroit Post. Because his short stories have usually been critically analyzed only in their volume form, studying them in their original periodical form adds a fresh perspective to Hardy short fiction scholarship.
