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Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. ... Because Hardy's family lacked the means for a university education, ...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman is the twelfth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy.It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891, [1] then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892.
Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy.He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) [1] —when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886.
Hardy by Richard Evans. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB (5 April 1769 – 20 September 1839) was a British Royal Navy officer. He took part in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797, the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 and the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Hardy was born in the property in 1840 and wrote his early novels at the cottage including Far from the Madding Crowd and Under the Greenwood Tree. The cottage reopens to visitors after its winter ...
Edward Thomas Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London , Hardy made his film debut in Ridley Scott 's Black Hawk Down in 2001. He had supporting roles in the films Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and RocknRolla (2008), and went on to star in Bronson (2008), Warrior (2011), Tinker Tailor ...
Florence Emily Dugdale (12 January 1879 – 17 October 1937) was an English teacher and children's writer, who was the second wife of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. She was credited as the author of Hardy's posthumously published biography, The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy , although it was written (mostly or entirely) by ...