![]() ![]() Too frail for school attendance, he was taught first by his mother, then in the private school of the lady of the manor. At the time of his birth, the old family of le Hardy, as it was once called, was poor and barely above the status of the laboring class. Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, in Brockhampton, Dorset, England. These novels are the backbone of Hardy's prose writing. Mindful of changes wrought by nature and the progress of history, and wishing to perpetuate the old customs of his land, he systematically used adjacent sections of Dorset County as the locale for each Wessex novel. ![]() ![]() "It is the office of good literature, the distinction of classical literature, to give form in every age to the age's human mind." Thus critic Lionel Johnson appraised the works of Thomas Hardy, "the English novelist who continues the high tradition of the art, is faithful to the spirit of his age, but faithful also to the spirit of his country." True indeed to his land, Hardy attempted to give form to a small sector of his native southwest England, which he dubbed Wessex. ![]()
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