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Sign in to Harper'sThomas Hardy was assumed dead on June 2, 1840, until a nurse said, “Stop a minute,” noticing that he had been born alive. A sickly child, he was diagnosed with a number of incapacitating ailments throughout his life, among them internal bleeding—during the convalescence from which he dictated much of the Harper’s Magazine serialization of his novel A Laodicean (1881) to his first wife, Emma Gifford—and pleurisy, from which he died on January 11, 1928. Around 1910, Harper’s offered Hardy…
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