Thomas Hardy

By miadora4151

  • Thomas Hardy is born in Stinsford, Dorset, England

    Thomas Hardy is born in Stinsford, Dorset, England

  • 1848-1856 Schooling in Dorset

  • Apprenticed to Dorchester architect John Hicks.

  • Employed as a draughts by London architect Arthur Bloomfield. Hardy educates himself on early English writers, lectures, art galleries, and operas

  • Completes first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, but is rejected for publication.

  • Meets Emma Gifford

    Meets Emma Gifford

  • Desperate Remedies is published

    Desperate Remedies is published

  • Under the Greenwood Tree was published

    Under the Greenwood Tree was published

  • Thomas marries Emma Gifford

  • Thomas and Emma move to Dorcester

  • Thomas and Emma move into Max Gate

    Thomas and Emma move into Max Gate

  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles is published

    Tess of the D'Urbervilles is published

  • Thomas Senior dies

    Thomas Senior dies

  • Thomas meets Florence Henniker

    Thomas meets Florence Henniker

  • Jude the Obscure is published

    Jude the Obscure is published

  • The Well-Beloved is published

    The Well-Beloved is published

  • Wessex Poems and Other Versus published

    Wessex Poems and Other Versus published

  • The Darkling Thrush is published

  • Poems of Past and the Present published

  • Jemima dies

    Jemima dies

  • Meets Florence Dugdale

    Meets Florence Dugdale

  • Awarded the Order of Merit and Freedom of Dorchester

  • Emma dies

    Emma dies

  • The Convergence of Twain

  • Poems of 1912-1913. A Changed Man and Other Tales

  • Marries Florence Dugdale

  • Thomas Hardy dies