When the novelist Thomas Hardy died, his widow Florence burned all his letters and notebooks in the grounds behind their ...
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When he was 16, Thomas Hardy was articled to a Dorchester architect. Not until eleven years later ... he returned to poetry, but not with the weak dilettantism of a used-up writer who wished ...
The building had a stone plaque on its front wall, in the centre of the first floor, honouring Thomas Hardy. It stated the novelist and poet trained at the building as an apprentice architect to ...
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Writing became Hardy’s substitute for personal relationships. His first wife Emma wrote bitterly, ‘he understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’. By his middle years Hardy ...