On June a pair of, 1840, Thomas Hardy, the noted British poet and author of the naturalism movement, was born in the small village of High Bockhampton, simply outside Dorchester in Dorset, England. Growing up with the help of his well-scan mother, he excelled at reading and writing, having an enthusiasm to learn, that a lot of than created up for his delicate form.
His father had a nice passion for music and passed this onto his son whilst playing the violin throughout their times at home. Thomas later learned to play the instrument and therefore the experiences he had playing around the local Dorset countryside would later type half of his literary works.
From the age of eight Thomas attended the native school in Lower Bockhampton which was solely a mile or therefore from home. A year later, Thomas attended the Dorchester Grammar College and started lessons in Latin, German, and French. When he turned sixteen, in 1856, he became an apprentice for a Dorchester Architect, John Hicks and was taken out of school to start his coaching as an architect and draughtsman. During his apprenticeship, he would usually turn his thoughts to the literary classics, and in line with Hicks 'he typically gave a lot of time to his books than to drawing'.
A college next door to the Hick's office provided additional literary encouragement for Hardy. He would often wander in and spend time discussing the classics with the schoolmaster named William Barnes. It had been Barnes who impressed him to write some of his own works.
In 1862 he arrived in London to start work as an architect and over the following six years became established and even won many architectural competitions. Whilst in London he continued to put in writing and despite his architectural success he somewhat hankered for the times of growing up in Dorchester. Nearly 10 years later he came to his previous workplace with John Hicks. In 1870 Hardy was sent to arrange a church restoration at St. Juliot in Cornwall. There he met Emma Gifford, sister-in-law of the vicar of St.Juliot. She encouraged him in his writing, and they were married in 1874.
Hardy printed his first novel, Desperate Remedies in 1871, to universal disinterest. However the subsequent year Below the Greenwood Tree brought Hardy popular popularity of the primary time. Like most of his fictional works, Greenwood Tree incorporated real places around Dorset into the plot, as well as the village school of Higher Bockhampton that Hardy had 1st attended as a child.
The success of Greenwood Tree brought Hardy a commission to write a serialized novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes, for Tinsley's Magazine. Once more Hardy drew upon real life, and the novel mirrors his own courtship of Emma. Finally the Hardys moved back to Dorchester, where Thomas used his architectural prowess to style and build Max Gate. Hardy later revealed The Mayor of Casterbridge, followed in 1887 by The Woodlanders and in 1891 by one among his best works, Tess of the d'Urberville.
Emma Hardy died in November 1912, and was buried in Stinsford churchyard. Thomas was stricken with guilt and remorse, but the result was a number of his best poetry, expressing his feelings for his wife of 38 years.
In 1914 Thomas married his secretary, Florence Emily Dugdale who would later publish The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 and The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 (1930). Thomas Hardy gave up the ghost fourteen years shortly January eleven, 1928 at his house of Max Gate in Dorchester. He was held in such high regard by the British government that his body was interred at the Poet's Corner, in Westminster Abbey. His heart however, is buried beside his first wife, Emma Gifford, in St. Michael's Church in Stinsford but a mile away from his birthplace.
Nowadays, Max Gate is under care of the National Trust, as is that the Hardy Cottage in Bockhampton. Each of these historic locations are open to the general public and are well value a visit if you are following the Hardy Trail.
The Dorset County Museum, in the centre of Dorchester, on High West Street, boasts a treasure trove of Dorset's literary past as well as an entire replica of Thomas Hardy's work at Max Gate. It also houses hundreds, if not thousands of books, images and manuscripts referring to him, and to William Barnes.
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