Personal life of thomas hardy
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Life of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born on the morning of 2nd June in the isolated thatched cottage, built by his great-grandfather at Higher Bockhampton, a hamlet on the edge of Piddletown Heath, three miles east of the county town of Dorchester. Both his maternal grandmother Betty and his mother, Jemima, were notable and purposeful women with vigorous and lively minds, and from them Hardy drew his keen sensitivity and his tenacious intellectual curiosity. But in depth of character and especially in his quiet, unassuming determination, he seems more to have resembled his father, also Thomas Hardy, a builder by trade, who had inherited a genius and passion for music. His talents were passed down to the younger Thomas who from an early age was playing the folk fiddle at local ‘randys’, and who throughout his life could be moved to tears by certain pieces of music. The personalities of his parents, the close-knit life of the small rural community, and the often
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“She was no longer a milkmaid, but the visionary essence of woman,” Hardy says of his most famous creation, Tess Durbeyfield: “a whole sex condensed into one typical form.” Tess, who is lovely and spirited, proves hardy, in the sense of long-suffering, at the hands of her seducer, Alec D’Urberville, and later her husband, Angel Clare, with his double standard of sexual morality. The punning title of Paula Byrne’s biography is not “Hardy’s Women” but “Hardy Women”, pointing to a prime characteristic of heroines who foretell and then outdo the liberated, career-minded New Woman in the s, such as Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure (), opening a new path along the nerves of her finer intelligence.
Hardy Women dares to match three major lives of the novelist, two of them by leading biographers, Robert Gittings in and Claire Tomalin in Between these, in , came a critical biography by the editor of Hardy’s letters, Michael Millgate, to whom Byrne is especially indebted. Yet her own exp
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Thomas Hardy: biography
Let's take a look at Hardy's life and death, poetry, and books.
Thomas Hardy: early life
Thomas Hardy was born on 2nd June in Dorset (England) to parents Thomas and Jemima. Hardy had three siblings, and his upbringing in the rural countryside influenced many of his works later in life. Thomas Hardy was educated at a private school in Dorchester (England), and chose not to go on to study at university. Hardy worked as an architect, while also writing poetry.
Thomas Hardy: later life
Thomas Hardy went on to write many successful novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd in Hardy also wrote poetry, and many ofHardy's works were known to challenge society's norms and customs. Hardy did not join the First World War, but many of his poems contain anti-war sentiments. Hardy married Emma Gifford in , and the two remained married until her death in Hardy remarried Florence Dugdale in Hardy did not have any children with either of his wives.