![]() ![]() ![]() In 1914, however, he married Florence Dugdale, a close friend for several years. Paradoxically, the event triggered some of Hardy's finest love poetry. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse, The Dynasts.After a long and bitter estrangement, Emma Hardy died at Max Gate in 1912. Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure, he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. He then produced most of his major novels: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved (1892) and Jude the Obscure (1895). But in 1885, after building his house at Max Gate near Dorchester, Hardy again returned to Dorset. More novels followed and in 1878 the Hardys moved from Dorset to the London literary scene. Before their marriage in 1874 he had published four novels and was earning his living as a writer. By 1867 he had returned to Dorset to work as Hicks's assistant and began his first (unpublished) novel, The Poor Man and the Lady.On an architectural visit to St Juliot in Cornwall in 1870 he met his first wife, Emma Gifford. He now began to write poetry and published an essay. In 1862 he moved to London and found employment with another architect, Arthur Blomfield. ![]() He was educated locally and at sixteen was articled to a Dorchester architect, John Hicks. Thomas Hardy was born in a cottage in Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, on 2 June 1840. ![]()
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