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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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culture · English novelist and poet (1840–1928) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · poet · also Thomas Hardy, Hardy
Born 2 June 1840 · Died 11 January 1928 · Q132805
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2026· 6 entries
Deseret News: The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is back in the national conversation, and it’s close to Utah Jazz coach Will Hardy’s heart. Here’s what he recently said about it
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WV MetroNews: Mix of veterans and newcomers hope to lead East Hardy to eighth consecutive playoff appearance
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ABC17NEWS: Mizzou’s Hardy and Green earn Preseason All-America nods
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WHSV: ‘Possibly armed and dangerous’ man found in Hardy County
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Cosmopolitan: 'A twist you don't see coming': Stephen Graham and Tom Hardy are dynamic pairing in dark must-watch thriller
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Residents of Dorset village that inspired Thomas Hardy fight back against expansion
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The Guardian: Life and work of Thomas Hardy to be performed at Stonehenge
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The Guardian: Far from the madding crowd: my personal pilgrimage on the quiet paths of Thomas Hardy’s Dorset
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2024· 6 entries
The Guardian: Historic Thomas Hardy building in Dorchester damaged by fire
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The Guardian: Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ under Thomas Hardy’s home given protected status
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The Guardian: The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy review – the writer’s poetry gets a sensuous second life in music
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The Guardian: Ockham’s Razor: Tess review – circus spin finds light and laughter in Thomas Hardy’s tale
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The Guardian: Hardy Women by Paula Byrne review – where love and fiction collide
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The Guardian: Hardy Women by Paula Byrne review – brilliant writer of women, very bad husband
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: In defence of Thomas Hardy’s treatment of women | Letter
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2006· 1 entry
Keith Wilson wrote: "The Dynasts, this unusual work that allowed him [Hardy] to explore what he had noticed about human beings over the most ambitious canvas that he had ever attempted, should stand among his greatest ac
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1928· 2 entries
Died 1928-01-11.
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“É magnífico ouvir o silêncio daquele homem.”
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1924· 1 entry
Declared that "my pages show harmony of view with" Mill
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1923· 1 entry
Was one of the final candidates for the prize, but did not win
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1914· 2 entries
Hardy was one of 53 leading British authors—including H
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Hardy married his secretary Florence Emily Dugdale, who was 39 years his junior
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1912· 2 entries
Had a traumatic effect on him and Hardy made a trip to Cornwall after her death to revisit places linked with their courtship
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Hardy divided his novels and collected short stories into three classes:
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1911· 1 entry
“Blue Jimmy: The Horse Stealer”
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1910· 1 entry
Hardy was appointed a Member of the Order of Merit and was also for the first time nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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1909· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (1909).
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1908· 1 entry
So readily and enthusiastically became involved with a local amateur group, at the time known as the Dorchester Dramatic and Debating Society, but that would become the Hardy Players
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1901· 2 entries
“Autumn in King's Hintock Park”
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Which contains "The Darkling Thrush" (originally titled "The Century's End"), one of his best known poems about the turn of the century
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1898· 1 entry
Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years
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1896· 1 entry
“A Committee-Man of 'The Terror'”
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1895· 1 entry
Was the last novel written by Hardy
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1893· 1 entry
“Master John Horseleigh, Knight”
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1892· 1 entry
And written before Jude the Obscure, was the last of Hardy's fourteen novels to be published, in 1897
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1891· 8 entries
“Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk”
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“Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir”
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“The Winters and the Palmleys”
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“Incident in the Life of Mr. George Crookhill”
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“The History of the Hardcomes”
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“The Superstitious Man's Story”
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“Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver”
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“Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician”
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1890· 3 entries
“The Marchioness of Stonehenge”
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“Barbara of the House of Grebe”
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“The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion”
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1889· 1 entry
“The First Countess of Wessex”
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1886· 2 entries
Was based on press reports of wife-selling
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And Jack Grein and Charles Jarvis in the same decade
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1885· 3 entries
“A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork”
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Moved for the last time, to Max Gate, a house outside Dorchester designed by Hardy and built by his brother
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Moved to Max Gate in Dorchester, a house designed by Hardy and built by his brother
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1883· 1 entry
“The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid”
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1882· 3 entries
“A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four”
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A romance story set in the world of astronomy
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Left him wary of the damage that adaptations could do to his literary reputation
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1880· 1 entry
Hardy published his only historical novel, The Trumpet-Major
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1878· 1 entry
“An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress”
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1877· 1 entry
“The Thieves Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing”
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1873· 1 entry
A Pair of Blue Eyes, a novel drawing on Hardy's courtship of Emma, was published under his own name
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1870· 1 entry
While on an architectural mission to restore the parish church of St Juliot in Cornwall, Hardy met and fell in love with Emma Gifford, whom he married on 17 September 1874, at St Peter's Church, Paddington, London
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1866· 1 entry
Studied at King's College London (1865–1866).
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1863· 1 entry
And All Saints' parish church in Windsor, Berkshire, in 1862–64
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1862· 1 entry
Moved to London, where he enrolled as a student at King's College London
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1858· 1 entry
And Adelene Buckland has suggested that there are "compelling similarities" between the "cliffhanger" section from A Pair of Blue Eyes and Mantell's geological descriptions
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1840· 1 entry
Born 1840-06-02.
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