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On the trail of Thomas Hardy
The second June 1840, was Thomas Hardy the noted British poet and author of the naturalism movement, born in the tiny village High Bock Hampton, just outside Dorchester in Dorset, England. Growing up with the help of his well-read mother, he excelled in reading and writing, with a willingness to learn which more than offset by his delicate form.
His father had a great passion for music and through that of his son, while playing violin during their time at home. Thomas later learned to play the instrument and the experiences he had to play around the local Dorset countryside was later part of his literary works.
From the age of eight Thomas attended the local school in Lower Bock Hampton there was only one mile or so from home. A year later, Thomas took part in the Dorchester Grammar School and began teaching in Latin, German and French. When he turned sixteen, in 1856, he became an apprentice to a Dorchester architect John Hicks and were taken out of school to start his training as an architect and advisory rapporteur. During his apprenticeship, he would often turn his thoughts to literary classics and, according to Hicks 'he often gave more time to his books than for subscription'.
A school next to Hick's office gave further encouragement to literary Hardy. He would often wander in and spend time discussing the classic with the schoolmaster named William Barnes. It was Barnes who impressed him to write some of his own works.
In 1862 he arrived in London to begin work as an architect and Over the next six years were up, even won several architectural competitions. While London, he continued to write and despite his architectural success, he handles anything for the days growing up in Dorchester. Nearly ten years later he returned to his old job with John Hicks. In 1870 Hardy was sent to organize a church restoration St. Juliot in Cornwall. There he met Emma Gifford, sister of the vicar in St.Juliot. She encouraged him in his writing, and they married in 1874.
Hardy released his first novel, Desperate Remedies in 1871, to universal disinterest. But the following year The Greenwood Tree brought Hardy popular credit for the first time. As with most of his fictional works, incorporated Greenwood Tree real locations around Dorset in the plot, including the village school of Higher Bock Hampton to Hardy first had been as child.
The success Greenwood Tree brought Hardy a commission to write a serialized novel, a pair of blue eyes, for Tinsley's Magazine. Once again, Hardy has based on real life, and the novel mirrors his own courtship of Emma. Finally, Hardy moved back to Dorchester, where Thomas used his architectural skills to design and build Max Gate. Hardy later released mayor Caster Bridge followed in 1887 by The Woodlanders and in 1891 by one of his best works, Tess of the d'Urberville.
Emma Hardy died in November 1912 and was buried in Stinsford cemetery. Thomas was hit with guilt and remorse, but the result was some of his best poetry, expressing his feelings for his wife in 38 years.
In 1914 Thomas married his secretary, Florence Emily Dugdale would later publish The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1891 and subsequent years by Thomas Hardy, 1892-1928 (1930). Thomas Hardy gone fourteen years later on 11 January 1928 in his house, Max Gate in Dorchester. He was kept in as much as the British government that his body was buried in Poet's Corner Westminster Abbey. His heart is buried alongside his first wife, Emma Gifford, in St. Michael's Church in Stinsford less than one mile away from his birthplace.
Today, Max Gate is taking care of the National Trust, as is the Hardy Cottage in Bock Hampton. Both of these historic sites are open the public and worth a visit if you follow the Hardy Trail.
The Dorset County Museum, in the center of Dorchester, on the West High Avenue, boasts a goldmine of Dorset literary history, including a complete copy of Thomas Hardy's work at Max Gate. It is also home to hundreds if not thousands of books. photographs and manuscripts relating to him and that William Barnes
About the Author
Dorchester has much to be proud of in the world of literature. Most famously
Thomas Hardy
set his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge in Dorchester.
Visit Dorchester
and follow the
Thomas Hardy Trail
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