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=Thomas Hardy Time line Biography. =

1840: Thomas Hardy was born on June 2nd, in Higher Bockhampton. 1848 -1856: Hardy was attending school. 1856: Hardy was involved in architect school met and studied with Horace Moule. 1862: Hardy travelled to London and worked with Arthur Blomfield. It was in London that he attended an Exhibiton and started writing poetry. 1865: Hardy published his first article, "How I Built Myself a House." 1867: Hardy returned to Dorset and wrote //The Poor Man and the Lady// a novel that was never published. 1870: Was the year Hardy met Emma Lavinia Gifford. 1871-1873: //Desperate Remedies//, //Under the Greenwood Tree//, and //A Pair of Blue Eyes// published respectively. 1873: Hardy left architecture to become full-time writer. 1874-76: The year Hardy married Emma and //The Hand of Ethelberta// was published. 1878: //The Return of the Native// published and was among successful novels that made Hardy celebrity 1880-83: //The Trumpet-Major, A Laodicean// and //Two on a Tower// published respectively a year apart. 1886: Hardy moved into Max Gate. //The Mayor of Casterbridge// published. 1887-88: The Woodlanders and Wessex Tales short stories published 1891: //Noble Dames// and //Tess of the d'Urbervilles// published <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1892: Hardy's father passed away. He begun serialization //The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved//. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1893: Meets Florence Henniker. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1894-97: //Life's Little Ironies// was published and //The Well-Beloved// appeared in volume form. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1898: Hardy's first volume of poems, //Wessex Poems//, appears in an edition of only 500 copies. He stopped writing novels. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1902: //Poems of the Past and Present//, Hardy's second volume as a poet, is published. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1903:- 96: Hardy worked on //The Dynasts// (epic trilogy). <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1910: Hardy receives the Order of Merit and the Freedom of Dorchester. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1912: Emma Hardy's wife dies. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1913: //A Changed Man// was published. Hardy makes a pilgrimage to the sites of his first wife Emma. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1914: //Satires of Circumstance// are published. It contains the "Poems of 1912-13," written in memory of Emma. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1914: Hardy marries Florence Dugdale. World War I broke up, contributing to Hardy's pessimism. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1917-23: //Moments of Vision, Late Lyrics and Earlier//, and //The Famous Tragedy// of the Queen of Cornwall published. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1925: Hardy is said to have been working on his autobiography, published posthumously under Florence's name. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1928: Hardy dies. His ashes are buried in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, and his heart is buried in Emma's grave. Winter Words and Hardy's autobiography is published posthumously.


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">References **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tomalin, Claire. Thomas Hardy. New York: The Penguin Press. 2007.

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