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Books like The Second Mrs Hardy

24 titles for readers of The Second Mrs Hardy by Robert Gittings, selected for shared themes: AUTHORS, ENGLISH, Marriage & Family, Literary Figures, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

AUTHORS, ENGLISH Marriage & Family Literary Figures English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Cultural, Ethnic & Regional European Sociology Literary Criticism Social Science Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to The Second Mrs Hardy

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of The Second Mrs Hardy.

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Themes: AUTHORS, ENGLISH • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Marriage Question George Eliot’s Double Life

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Themes: Marriage & Family • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Into the Frame The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Mrs Woolf and the Servants The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

One Pair of Hands

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Elizabeth Bowen Portrait of a Writer

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Themes: AUTHORS, ENGLISH • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Left Hand, Right Hand! An Autobiography

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Themes: AUTHORS, ENGLISH • Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Themes: Marriage & Family • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

Dreams of the Good Life The Life Of Flora Thompson And The Creation Of Lark Rise To Candl

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#12

Lime Street at Two

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

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The Flame Trees of Thika Memories of an African Childhood

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#14

Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen

Sheila Johnson Kindred

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#15

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

#16

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth A Life

Frances Wilson

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#17

Yesterday Morning A Very English Childhood

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#18

W.H. Hudson A Biography

Ruth Tomalin

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#19

Tolkien and C.S. Lewis The Gift of Friendship

Colin Duriez

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#20

Charles Dickens A Life

Claire Tomalin

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#21

Thatcher Stole My Trousers

Alexei Sayle

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

#22

Ghost Milk Calling Time on the Grand Project

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life Volume II: The After-War World

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Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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A Tourist in Africa

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Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • European

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Second Mrs Hardy by Robert Gittings. Connected by AUTHORS, ENGLISH, Marriage & Family, Literary Figures. Authors featured include Claire Tomalin, Clare Carlisle, Angela Thirlwell, Alison Light, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.