Gittings Author

The late Robert Gittings was a critic, poet, and biographer, and the author of Dorothy Wordsworth (OUP, Southern Arts Literature Prize 1987). He was also the author of John Keats (W. H. Smith Literary Award 1969, Heineman Educational Books), Young Thomas Hardy (Christian Gauss Award 1985, HEB), and The Older Hardy (RSL Heinemann Award 1979, James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1979, HEB). Jo Manton is a historical researcher and the author of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and, with Gittings, Dorothy Wordsworth and The Second Mrs Hardy.