This is a companion to George Eliot's life and works, listing year by year the details of her biography, her wide reading and her literary output. The chronology also offers previously unavailable bibliographical information, listing Eliot's periodical publications and all the editions of the novels published in Great Britain during her lifetime.;Timothy Hands is also author of "Thomas Hardy: distracted preacher?".

Here is a full companion to Hardy's life and works, listing year by year the details of his secretive biography and remarkable literary output. Background information is provided, especially for those historical events in which Hardy took most interest, but the chief aim is to provide the reader with an abbreviated biography and reference guide. Wherever possible, the story of the author's life has been told in his own words; but especially in the earlier years, where Hardy preserved the greatest secrecy, quotation has also been included from the standard biographies, and close use has been made of Hardy's notebooks and the biographically revealing marginalia in his personal library.

A Hardy Chronology provides the Hardy student with an abbreviated biography and reference guide, listing year by year the full details of a remarkably full life and prodigious literary output. Background information is provided, especially for those historical events in which Hardy took most interest, but the chief aim has been to provide the reader with an account of Hardy's life which uses the author's own words wherever possible.