The Busy Bee was a handmade "little magazine" created between 1877 and 1886. It is largely composed of handwritten articles, including poetry, prose, fiction, and non-fiction, though it also includes illustrations, magazine cuttings, and photographs. The project was organised by Selina Mary Moor (1860-1944) who, every "quarter", would solicit submissions from a coterie of family, friends, and friends-of-friends. Though most of the people in this group were amateurs in that they were not trained and did not identify as either authors or artists, among this circle was the prolific Victorian author Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901).
Hardy’s Correspondents, a collaborative project between the University of Exeter and Dorset Museum, aims to make available for the first time over 5000 letters which are cared for at Dorset History Centre. These letters form part of Dorset Museum’s Thomas Hardy Memorial Collection, the largest Hardy collection in the world, recently selected for the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
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