1592997056000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-166814 1758564088788 1758534214000 1758564086831 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-166814 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166814 78b0fe19-6d00-32bf-a794-240f6c81b583 29 reference term-114522 adlib-term-114522 76be19ae-554e-3b73-af2d-112e09263aaf manuscript Manuscripts and Printed Books Jude the Obscure has an iconic status in the history of English literature. A key example of the so-called New Fiction, the transitional stage in the development of the English novel between the Victorian and the modern era, it is representative of fin de siècle anxieties. Indeed, Hardy saw Jude the Obscure as the greatest among his ‘novels of character and environment,’ a story ‘of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit.’ This autograph manuscript, now bound as one volume, is Hardy’s handwritten, fair copy of the text. But when Jude was first published in serial form between December 1894 and November 1895 in the English and European editions of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, he was forced to make numerous and substantial changes to avoid scandalizing its family audience. He entered the changes in blue or green ink on this manuscript, and made it clear that the changes were for this specific purpose only, writing on the first page: ‘Alterations and deletions in blue and green are for the serial publication only and have no authority beyond.’ When the text was published in book form in 1896, he reversed many of the changes. (See the proof copy of Jude the Obscure, also in our collections: PB 7-2008). The Fitzwilliam acquired this manuscript in 1911, after Sydney Cockerell, Director (1908-1937), set himself the task of creating a collection of literary manuscripts unique in the context of fine art museums. He wrote to Thomas Hardy asking him to ‘give one of his manuscripts to the Fitzwilliam’, and was invited to Max Gate, Hardy’s ‘modern villa’ outside Dorchester. Cockerell’s diary records that ‘He received me most kindly and I spent a couple of hours with him talking about Morris, architecture etc.’. In fact, Cockerell became Hardy’s literary executor and distributed his manuscripts among leading public institutions, choosing for the Fitzwilliam this autograph manuscript of Jude the Obscure, and his 1911 collection of poems, Times’ Laughingstock. 15-080 reference exhibition-3315 adlib-exhibition-3315 36578f86-1273-3840-aed2-973e3e65e938 The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces MS 1-1911 1 accession number MS 1-1911 166814 priref 166814 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166814 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/166814 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-164264 adlib-agent-164264 48457cb1-2fa9-35ee-ab75-7a420ed5fecf Hardy, Thomas (writer) 1911 1911 1911 given 1894 CE 1894 circa 1894 author reference agent-164264 adlib-agent-164264 48457cb1-2fa9-35ee-ab75-7a420ed5fecf Hardy, Thomas (writer) Height closed: h. 275 x w. 232 x d. 70 mm reference media-167318 adlib-media-167318 21ad4821-bcf6-3ddb-af63-c57b8c12a3d8 jpeg msspb/msspb5/MS_201_1911_20_28p1_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 541 1742594871639 1 image jpeg msspb/msspb5/mid_MS_201_1911_20_28p1_29.jpg 1 height pixels 702 width pixels 500 1742594871639 1 image jpeg msspb/msspb5/MS_201_1911_20_28p1_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 541 1742594871639 1 image jpeg msspb/msspb5/preview_MS_201_1911_20_28p1_29.jpg 1 height pixels 351 width pixels 250 1742594871639 1 image 0 media image reference media-575228512 portfolio portfolio-media-575228512 0c5270b9-7a34-3948-b1ce-01868ca056eb jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/642/527/large_MS_1_1911_p1_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 1207 width pixels 1024 1554769252000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/642/527/mid_MS_1_1911_p1_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 589 width pixels 500 1554769252000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/642/527/MS_1_1911_p1_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 6918 width pixels 5871 1554769252000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/642/527/preview_MS_1_1911_p1_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 295 width pixels 250 1554769252000 1 image 1 media image reference media-1698535451 portfolio portfolio-media-1698535451 db014ce7-dac2-3d03-9545-534ad5621fbc jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/155/MS_1_1911_Jude_The_Obscure.jpg 1 height pixels 580 width pixels 436 1565602296000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/155/MS_1_1911_Jude_The_Obscure.jpg 1 height pixels 580 width pixels 436 1565602296000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/155/MS_1_1911_Jude_The_Obscure.jpg 1 height pixels 580 width pixels 436 1565602296000 1 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/664/155/preview_MS_1_1911_Jude_The_Obscure.jpg 1 height pixels 333 width pixels 250 1565602296000 1 image 2 media image reference term-102714 adlib-term-102714 64d419d3-02d0-313d-82de-e1a6c070d8c1 novel reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 238 reference publication-382 adlib-publication-382 ee5148de-e3eb-3d38-88db-9a331edf70b6 Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum

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