Iza Duffus Hardy Explained
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
Iza Duffus Hardy was born in Enfield, the daughter of archivist Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804–1878) and author Mary Anne Hardy (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
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. 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. Ford Madox Brown made a large pastel portrait of Hardy in 1872.
Personal life
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.[28] She was skilled at needlework and other handcrafts. She was briefly engaged to American poet Joaquin Miller, during his time in London in 1873.[29] She died in a Paddington nursing home in 1922, aged 71 years. Ford Madox Brown's 1872 portrait of Hardy is in the collection of Birmingham Museums.[30] 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.[31]
Notes and References
- Martin. G. H.. Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1804–1878), historian and archivist. 2021-04-18. 2004. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/12292.
- Book: Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. 1990. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-1842-4. 276. en.
- Book: Who's who. 1903. A. & C. Black. 604. en.
- 1893. Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives: Iza Duffus Hardy. The Strand Magazine. 5. 473. Newnes. Sir George.
- Book: Black, Helen C.. Notable Women Authors of the Day: Biographical Sketches. 1893. D. Bryce & Son. 197–209. en.
- Book: Hardy, Thomas. Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy. 1978-06-17. Springer. 978-1-349-03597-7. 206. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus.. Not easily jealous; a novel.. 1872. B. Tauchnitz. Collection of British authors,v. 1256-1257. Leipzig.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. For the old love's sake, by the author of 'Not easily jealous'. by I.D. Hardy. 1877. A. H. Moxon. London. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. Glencairn. 1877. Hurst. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. Only a love-story. 1877. Hurst and Blackett. London. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. A broken faith: In three volumes. 1878. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough Street. London.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. Friend and lover. 1880. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus.. Love, honour, and obey .... 1884. F.V. White & co.. London.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. The Love that He Passed By, Etc. 1904. Digby, Long & Company. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. The girl he did not marry. 1887. F. V. White & Company. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus.. Love in idleness; the story of a winter in Florida.. 1887. White. London.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. A new Othello. 1890. F. V. White & Company. en.
- Christmas 1904. The Master of Madrono Hills. The Bookman. 27. 14.
- Web site: Bassett. Troy J.. Author Information: Iza Duffus Hardy. 2021-04-18. At the Circulating Library.
- Hardy. Iza Duffus. November 1883. A Trip to Blackwell's Island. Tinsley's Magazine. 33. 474–479.
- Book: Plarr, Victor. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries. 1895. G. Routledge and Sons, limited. 390. en.
- Hardy. Iza Duffus. 1893. In the Shadow of the Sierras. The Strand Magazine. 5. 435–445.
- Book: Fant, Jennie Holton. Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865–1947: From the Ruins of War to the Rise of Tourism. 2019-02-27. Univ of South Carolina Press. 978-1-61117-940-8. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus. https://books.google.com/books?id=1c4PAAAAYAAJ&q=Iza+Duffus+Hardy&pg=PA263. Greatest Wonders of the World. 1906. Christian Herald. Singleton. Esther. 263–267. en. Pike's Peak and the Garden of the Gods.
- Web site: Ayad. Sara. 6 February 2020. Iza Duffus Hardy: a forgotten author who mixed with the Pre-Raphaelites. 2021-04-18. Art UK. en.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus.. Between two oceans, or, Sketches of American travel. 1884. Hurst and Blackett. London.
- Book: Hardy, Iza Duffus.. Oranges and alligators. 1887. Ward and Downey. London.
- Book: Notes and Queries. 1901. Oxford University Press. 58. en.
- Book: Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 5. 1997. University of California Press. 978-0-520-20822-3. 408, note 14. en.
- Web site: Brown. Ford Madox. 1872. Portrait of Miss Iza Duffus Hardy. 2021-04-18. Birmingham Museums. en.
- Web site: Correspondence: Hardy, Iza. 2021-04-18. Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection of Swinburneiana, College of William & Mary.
