Barbara Hardy, Dorothea’s Daughter and Other Nineteenth-Century Postscripts

Abstract

Barbara Hardy, in her little gem of a book, Dorothea’s Daughter and Other Nineteenth-Century Postcripts, offers us delightful insights into how each of the novels could/would have unfolded after the final full stop—if there had been no such stop. She herself calls her stories ‘postscripts’, as her position is clearly that of an author, but an author who would like to delay the moment when ‘it is finished’, and who turns back to reflect upon her/his creation. By choosing this very difficult st...