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Thomas Hardy is born in Stinsford, Dorset, England
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1848-1856 Schooling in Dorset
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Apprenticed to Dorchester architect John Hicks.
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Employed as a draughts by London architect Arthur Bloomfield. Hardy educates himself on early English writers, lectures, art galleries, and operas
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Completes first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, but is rejected for publication.
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Meets Emma Gifford
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Desperate Remedies is published
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Under the Greenwood Tree was published
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Thomas marries Emma Gifford
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Thomas and Emma move to Dorcester
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Thomas and Emma move into Max Gate
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles is published
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Thomas Senior dies
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Thomas meets Florence Henniker
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Jude the Obscure is published
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The Well-Beloved is published
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Wessex Poems and Other Versus published
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The Darkling Thrush is published
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Poems of Past and the Present published
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Jemima dies
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Meets Florence Dugdale
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Awarded the Order of Merit and Freedom of Dorchester
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Emma dies
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The Convergence of Twain
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Poems of 1912-1913. A Changed Man and Other Tales
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Marries Florence Dugdale
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Thomas Hardy dies