... First of two lovely Scottish postcards... novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was not only born in this picturesque and idyllic thatched cottage surrounded by beautiful woodland... but it was also his home for the first 34 years of his life... and it was here that he wrote 'Under the Greenwood Tree' and 'Far from the Madding Crowd'.... Hardy is generally thought to be one of the greatest figures in English literature... visiting Hardy's Cottage gives an insight into the author's background, a life that shaped his later writings and an environment that he incorporated into his works... the cottage is decorated with artefacts that may have been in the cottage during that era, books, recipes and crafts... though he's most famous for his novels, Hardy really considered himself a poet... Thanks a lot Andrene! ❁◕ ‿ ◕❁
Glad you finally could send me this wonderful postcard!❤️
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English writer in the Victorian Realist tradition and the author of fourteen novels, eight volumes of poetry, and three volumes of short stories.
He trained as an architect and worked in London and Dorset for ten years. His first novel manuscript, The Poor Man and the Lady (1867-68), was rejected by several publishers, but one editor, George Meredith encouraged him, and so Hardy set out to refine his style. A second story, Desperate Remedies (1871), was accepted and published. His next novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), demonstrates a more polished Hardy now coming into his own style.
Hardy's body was buried at Westminster Abbey in Poet's Corner, while his heart was buried in Stinson, England, near the graves of his ancestors and his first wife, Emma.
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