thomas hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England on June 2, 1840 to Jemima Hand and Thomas Hardy Sr. who were only married for six months. Thomas was the oldest of four children who included Mary, Henry and Kate. Hardy attended school for only eight years between 1848 and 1856. While at school he developed a love for architecture as well as for writing. While working for the architect John Hicks as his assistant he never stopped studying writing and even practiced Latin every morning for three hours before work. In 1868 Thomas Hardy completed first novel, The Poor Man and The Lady. He had done all the writing in his spare time after work and on his days off. Despite such a commitment to his writing it was still rejected for publication. By 1870 Hardy had met his future wife Emma Gifford and was working on another novel called Desperate Remedies. Hardy's life now switched directions to becoming a full time writer yet he still maintained his association with local architects as a hobby rather than as a job. From 1871 to 1
As it turned out Under the Greenwood Tree became one of Hardy's most famous novels and was partially based on his first rejected novel The Poor Man and The Lady. By 1878 Hardy and Emma had separated and Hardy's focus of writing had changed once again. Some compare Thomas Hardy's Max Gate to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. In 1874 Hardy married Emma Gifford and began work on another novel called The Hand of Ethelberta. By 1878 Hardy had completed his first book of poetry, the Wessex Poems. At about this same time Hardy began having marital problems with his wife and Emma and had an affair with Florence Henniker. Upon completion of this novel in 1876 Hardy started working on his most famous novel, The Return of the Native which was completed in 1878. Some say it was due to his father's death while others say it was due to his divorce but nonetheless Hardy quit writing novels and short stories to focus primarily on poetry. In 1915 Hardy's sister Marry died and once again Hardy sought companionship from a women other than his wife and had an affair with an actress by the name of Gertrude Bugler. Hardy then took on an even greater challenge in 1902 when he wrote the Dynasts which was actually drama in verse. Thomas Hardy died on January 11, 1928. By 1891 Hardy's focus on writing changed from novels to short stories which included the writings of Life's Little Ironies in 1894. This turned out to be Hardy's most prized achievement and he lived there until his eventual death. Within these years Hardy wrote eight novels during these years including The Trumpet-Major (1880), A Laodicean (1881); This was actually dictated to Emma because Hardy was bed ridden with an illness, Two on a Tower (1882), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Wessex Tales (1888), A Group of Noble Dames (1891), and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).
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