Saturday 2 June 2007

Thomas Hardy born today in 1840

Thomas Hardy and friend
Max Gate the house Thomas Hardy designed for himself and his wife Emma in Dorchester.

The study in which he wrote Tess of the D'Urbervilles and other books.
The Hardy family cottage where he grew up in Dorset.
Thomas Hardy one of the poets and writers of England who has always been much appreciated for his understanding of rural life and the subtexts of that intense existence. He trained as an architect but devoted more and more time to writing and after the success of Jude the Obscure he could do it full time and build Max Gate to live and work in.

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