Thomas Hardy   (1840-1928)

 
       Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born near Dorchester, in southeastern England
       (on which he based the "Wessex" of many of his novels and poems). Hardy
       worked for the ecclesiastical architect John Hicks from 1856 to 1861. He then
       moved to London to practice architecture, and took evening classes at King's
       College for six years.

       In 1867, he gave up architecture to become a full-time writer, and after writing
       short stories and poems found success as a novelist. The Mayor of Casterbridge
       (1886) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) reveal Hardy's concern for victims
       of circumstance and his appeal to humanitarian sympathy in readers. After his
       novel Jude the Obscure (1896) was strongly criticized, Hardy set aside prose
       fiction and returned to poetry, a genre in which he was most prolific and
       successful after he reached the age of seventy.
 

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