Before his death in 1928, Hardy was recognized as a major literary contributor of his time period and he was awarded the Order of Merit for his literary achievements in 1910. Hardy remarried a woman named Florence Dugdale in 1914. His wife’s death in 1912 inspired some of his most memorable works of poetry. For the thirty-two years of his life after the publication of Jude the Obscure, Hardy wrote only poetry and drama. There, in his beloved homeland, he wrote many of his major novels: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved (1892), and his final novel, Jude the Obscure (1895). But by 1885, Thomas Hardy had again returned to Dorset. In 1878, the Hardys moved to London, so Thomas could join the thriving literary circles there. He married his first wife, Emma Gifford, in 1874, after meeting her on a business trip to Cornwall four years earlier. In 1867, he returned to Dorset, working again as an architecture assistant, as he started to craft his first novel. In London, he started to write and publish poetry. In 1862, he moved to London to further his career and worked with an architect named Arthur Blomfield. He was not able to receive a thorough education, but, at sixteen, he became an architectural apprentice. The most important theme in The Mayor of Casterbridge is that of blind Fate. Thomas Hardy grew up in a cottage near Dorchester.
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