thomas hardy

     

Roman Polanski's film "Tess" was based on his novel "Tess of the D' Urbervilles"

Trivia about thomas hardy

  • He mentioned the word mixen, a synonym for dunghill, in his novel "Far From the Madding Crowd"
  • The word "fairlings" means presents bought at a fair in his novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
  • "The Queen of Cornwall", from a play by this author, premiered "Far from the Madding Crowd", in Glastonbury
  • "Our Exploits at West Poley" is a children's book by this "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" author
  • He left his heart & the remains of 2 wives "Far From the Madding Crowd" at Stinsford Church near Dorchester
  • "The Mayor of Casterbridge"
  • This "Return of the Native" author's first novel, "Desperate Remedies", was published in 1871
  • 1873's "A Pair Of Blue Eyes" was the first novel he put his name on; "Far From The Madding Crowd" was second
  • The title of his novel "Far From the Madding Crowd" is found in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
  • Edward Driffield, a novelist in Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", is said to be based on this "Jude the Obscure" author
  • This "Jude the Obscure" author admired Browning but was said to be too shy to meet him
  • "The Queen of Cornwall" is based on a play by this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author
  • He left his heart & the remains of 2 wives "Far From The Madding Crowd" at Stinsford Church near Dorchester
  • After the public outcry over his "Jude The Obscure", this author never wrote another novel
  • In a bit of optimism at the end of his "Return of the Native", newlyweds Diggory & Thomasin ride off in a dogcart
  • Fancy Day is the heroine of "Under the Greenwood Tree" by this "Jude the Obscure" author
  • In his youth, this author of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" played the fiddle at weddings & dances
  • Known for his gloomy novels, this Brit also published 9 volumes of rhyming verse starting in 1898
  • Due to negative public reaction to "Jude the Obscure", he abandoned writing novels for the last 33 years of his life
  • After he gave up writing novels, he published his "Wessex Poems" in 1898
  • You'll find his birthplace "Far From the Madding Crowd" in Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester
  • Bored Lady Constantine finds passion with an astronomer in--where else?--Wessex in his "Two on a Tower"
  • Toni Morrison wrote "The Bluest Eye"; this mopey Brit wrote "A Pair of Blue Eyes"
  • "A Pair of Blue Eyes" is one of this author's "Wessex novels"