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Thomas Hardy

1840 - 1928

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Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Hardy is the 49th most popular writer (up from 806th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 610th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Writer.

Thomas Hardy is most famous for his novels "Far from the Madding Crowd," "The Mayor of Casterbridge," and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."

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Among writers, Thomas Hardy ranks 49 out of 7,302. Before him are Horace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Pushkin, Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Schiller, and Aristophanes. After him are Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Denis Diderot, Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and Euripides.

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Among people born in 1840, Thomas Hardy ranks 3. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Claude Monet. After him are Émile Zola, Auguste Rodin, Carlota of Mexico, Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1928, Thomas Hardy ranks 2. Before him is Roald Amundsen. After him are Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Wien, Maria Feodorovna, Leoš Janáček, Max Scheler, Édouard-Henri Avril, Emmeline Pankhurst, Theodore William Richards, Johannes Fibiger, and Franz Stuck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hardy ranks 49 out of 8,785. Before him are Alexander Graham Bell (1847), Mary I of England (1516), Charles Dickens (1812), Alan Turing (1912), Alexander Fleming (1881), and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947). After him are Bernard Montgomery (1887), James Cook (1728), Mary, Queen of Scots (1542), J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), and Anthony Hopkins (1937).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Hardy ranks 5. Before him are William Shakespeare (1564), Agatha Christie (1890), H. G. Wells (1866), and Charles Dickens (1812). After him are Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), and Lewis Carroll (1832).

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