Thomas
Hardy
1, English
novelist and poet
-he was an English novelist and poet
2, 2 June
1840 – 11 January 1928
-he was
born in Bockhampton, which is a hamlet to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England
3,
Influence
-a
Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Elliot, he was also influenced
both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth
-he was
also influenced by Charles Dickens
4, Rural
society
-Hardy
focused on a declining rural society
1, Family
-his father
Thomas Worked as a stonemason and local builder
-his mother
Jemima was well-read
2,
Education
-at school
he learned Latin and could do well academically, however, the family was not
able to send him to university
-first he
trained as an architect, later moved to London and studied at the King’s
College
3,
Architect
-he was successful
architect
-won prizes
from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association
4. Wives
-he was
married twice
-his first
wife was Emma Lavinia Gifford, although they later became estranged
-her death
in 1912 had a traumatic effect on him
-his second
wife was Florence Emily Dugdale, who was 39 years his junior
His works
-> novels
-> short
stories
-> poetry
-> drama
-Hardy is
known primarily as a novelist, although he also published short stories,
poetry, drama
Hardy
divided his novels into three classes:
1) Novels
of Character and Environment
Far from
the Madding Crowd (1874)
The Return
of the Native (1878)
The Mayor of the Casterbridge (1886)
The Woodlanders (1887)
Tess of the d‘Urbervilles (1891)
Jude the Obscure (1895)
..
2) Romances
and Fantasies
A pair of
Blue Eyes (1873)
Two on a Tower (1882)
..
3) Novels
of Ingenuity
Desperate
Remedies (1871)
The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
..
Short
stories
How I Built Myself A House (1865)
The Three Strangers (1883)
Alicia‘s Diary (1887)
A Tragedy Of Two Ambitions (1888)
..
Poetry
collections
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
The Voice (1912)
Satires of Circumstance (1914)
..
Drama
The Dynasts (verse drama) –
Part 1 (1904), Part 2 (1906), Part 3 (1908)
..
Location in
novels
-Wessex
regions and actual English counties
->Lower, Devon, position on map 9
-> Mid, Wiltshire, position on map 37
-> North, Berkshire, position on map 2
-> Outer, Somerset, position on map 30
-> South, Dorset, position on map 10
-> Upper, Hampshire, position on map 14
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