NOVEL IDEAS
Thomas Hardy
Dorset, England
Who?
A giant of Victorian literature with a perfectly-pointed moustache, Thomas Hardy belonged to the realist tradition of George Eliot, Edith Wharton and Henry James. Several of his novels, including 1874’s Far from the Madding Crowd and 1891’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, regularly feature in lists of the all-time greatest works of fiction. After a critical reception for his final novel, 1895’s Jude the Obscure, he turned his attentions to poetry for the final 33 years of his life.
Where?
Many of Hardy’s novels and his 1888 short story collection, , set out his love for a semi-fictional region of England. Though named after a real medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom,.
