Timothy Hands, Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? (Macmillan, 1989).
2.
Harold Orel, The Final Years of Thomas Hardy 1912-1928 (Macmillan , 1976).
3.
Deborah L. Collins: Thomas Hardy and His God: A Liturgy of Unbelief ( Macmillan , 1990).
4.
J.I.M. Stewart, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Biography (Longman , 1971).
5.
Cedric Watts, Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure (Penguin Critical Studies, Penguin, 1992).
6.
P.W. Coxon, 'Thomas Hardy's Attitude towards Christianity' (in D. W. D. Shaw, ed., Dimensions. Literary and Theological, St Mary's College, University of St Andrews , 1992,35-58).
7.
R. Gittings, Young Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 1975) and The Older Hardy (Penguin, 1980).
8.
Michael Millgate, Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist (Bodley Head, 1971, Macmillan, 1994).
