托马斯哈代英文生评

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Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in Higher Bockhampton in this cottage. This cottage is now in the care of The National Trust.
Throughout his life, he fondly remembered this house and frequently visited it. This little village had even become the focus of his fiction, the Wessex of his novels and poems
The Return of the Native (1878)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) Jude the Obscure (1895)
Features of his Novels
1. Sympathy for the peasants in an age of decline and decay of peasantry; 2. Man’s life controlled by hostile, cruel, mysterious fate; 3. A pessimistic vein runs throughout his novels. 4. Nostalgia for the pastoral and patriarchal mode of life;
A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) (1880)
The Trumpet Major
Biblioteka Baidu
Desperate Remedies (1871)
The Hand of Ethelberta(1876)
Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
Far Form the Madding Crowd (1874)
5. A naturalistic tendency in his works
6. Architectural structure by accumulating each circumstance
Hardy first met his future wife, Emma Gifford, at St. Juliot’s rectory in 1872. They married in 1874 This chance meeting would shape the next 40 years of Hardy’s life.
His Major Works
Hardy himself divided his novels into three groups:
1)Novels of Romances & Fantasies
2)Novels of Ingenuity
3)Novels of Character & Environment
Thomas Hardy
one of the most important novelists in the Victorian Era
the first important poet in the 20th century.
Life
Works
Features of his novels
His Life
Thomas and Emma Hardy resided at Max Gate from 1884 onward. She died in 1912.
Emma Gifford was a woman of high social status. She had a very interesting personality and was always remembered by visitors to the Hardy household.
Hardy met Florence Dugdale in 1907. After Emma’s death in 1912, Florence and Hardy married and continued to live at Max Gate
Hardy died on January 11, 1928.
Hardy spent his early life singing in the church choir with his father. He was a sickly child and was not able to attend school at a young age. At the age of 22, Hardy moved to London to become an architect.
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