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Thomas Hardy

Familiar with the phrase “Cliff Hanger”? It was invented about Thomas Hardy who left a character literally hanging from a cliff.
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in England. He was not born into a wealthy family, his father was a stonemason, and he went to college as an architect. Although he won prizes as an architect, he was mainly a poet and novelist. He lived during the Victorian Era, where people did not talk about things like sex and girls were made out to be like porcelain dolls, but he wrote about women who were unchaste, destitute, or had committed adultery, which was very shocking and revolutionary. His books, which very often did have sex or things that were considered unmentionable, were censored and even burned by some people in outrage. Once an insulted woman sent Hardy the ashes of one of his books to show how much she hated it. He wrote his first novel in 1867 but couldn’t find a publisher, so he destroyed the manuscript. He was encouraged to try again by a friend and published his first two novels anonymously. Hardy is most famous for his language and the portrayal of his characters. He shows you all levels of society from top to bottom and all the corruption that goes on in life, he doesn’t hold back the weaknesses, shortcomings and villainous activity of people or prettify things like people of the Victorian Era tended to want. He designed his books to be honest which also made things seem rather bleak, and he shows you the injustice of society and the Victorian system, how the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, and a girl like Tess in Tess of the D’Urbervilles never can get a break from anybody.
Thomas Hardy fell in love with a woman, Emma Lavinia Gifford, married her, and then they separated. However he always still loved her and her death had a real impact on him. Even when he married a woman 37 years younger than him, Florence Dugdale, he still wrote poems about his first wife. His heart was buried with his first wife and his ashes were buried in Poets’ Corner in a famous London cemetery.