Thomas Hardy By miadora4151 Jun 2, 1840 Thomas Hardy is born in Stinsford, Dorset, England 1848 1848-1856 Schooling in Dorset 1856 Apprenticed to Dorchester architect John Hicks. 1862 Employed as a draughts by London architect Arthur Bloomfield. Hardy educates himself on early English writers, lectures, art galleries, and operas 1868 Completes first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, but is rejected for publication. Mar 7, 1870 Meets Emma Gifford 1871 Desperate Remedies is published 1872 Under the Greenwood Tree was published Sep 17, 1874 Thomas marries Emma Gifford 1883 Thomas and Emma move to Dorcester 1885 Thomas and Emma move into Max Gate 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles is published 1892 Thomas Senior dies 1893 Thomas meets Florence Henniker 1895 Jude the Obscure is published 1897 The Well-Beloved is published 1898 Wessex Poems and Other Versus published Dec 29, 1900 The Darkling Thrush is published 1901 Poems of Past and the Present published Apr 3, 1904 Jemima dies 1905 Meets Florence Dugdale 1910 Awarded the Order of Merit and Freedom of Dorchester 1912 Emma dies 1912 The Convergence of Twain 1913 Poems of 1912-1913. A Changed Man and Other Tales 1914 Marries Florence Dugdale Jan 11, 1928 Thomas Hardy dies
