Later, in his early twenties, Hardy worked for architect Arthur Blomfield in London before ill health forced him back to his hometown in Dorset and another job with Hicks. He trained to be an architect.Īs a teenager, Hardy apprenticed under local architect James Hicks, for whom he and his father had restored Woodsford Castle. Hardy spent most of his childhood in the picturesque countryside that inspired his imaginary Wessex. His father, also named Thomas Hardy, was a stonemason, and his mother, Jemima, was a well-educated woman who taught her son at home. Thomas Hardy didn’t attend formal school until he was 8. Here are 11 facts about their reticent creator. Hardy’s characters, living in the fictional region of Wessex, struggle against the mores of industrialized, Victorian England. Born in 1840 in the English county of Dorset, author and poet Thomas Hardy is best known for his novels of rural realism, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), and the controversial Jude the Obscure (1895).
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