托马斯哈代英文生评 16页.pptVIP

one of the most important novelists in the Victorian Era the first important poet in the 20th century. Life Works Features of his novels Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in Higher Bockhampton in this cottage. 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 His Life This cottage is now in the care of The National Trust. 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. 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. 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. Thomas and Emma Hardy resided at Max Gate from 1884 onward. She died in 1912. 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. 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 A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) The Trumpet Major (1880) Desperate Remedies (1871) The Hand of Ethelberta(1876) Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) Far Form the Madding Crowd (1874) The Return of the Native (1878) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)