Thomas Hardy

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Victorian novelist human novelist poet short story writer

Thomas Hardy was an influential English novelist and poet whose works, including "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and "Far from the Madding Crowd," vividly depict rural life and social constraints in late 19th-century Britain.

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Victorian novelist → human → novelist → poet → short story writer →
awardReceived	Order of Merit (United Kingdom) →
burialPlace	Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey → Stinsford churchyard →
causeOfDeath	cardiac-related illness →
countryOfCitizenship	England → United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1840-06-02 →
dateOfDeath	1928-01-11 →
educatedAt	King's College London (evening classes) →
ethnicGroup	English →
familyName	Hardy →
fieldOfWork	English fiction → English poetry → literature →
genre	novel → poetry → short story →
givenName	Thomas →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
mannerOfDeath	natural causes →
movement	Victorian literature → naturalism → realism →
name	Thomas Hardy →
notableConcept	Wessex (fictional region) →
notableWork	Far from the Madding Crowd → Jude the Obscure → Tess of the d'Urbervilles → The Mayor of Casterbridge → The Return of the Native → The Woodlanders → Under the Greenwood Tree → Wessex Poems and Other Verses →
occupation	architect → novelist → poet →
placeOfBirth	Dorset → England → Higher Bockhampton →
placeOfDeath	Dorchester → Dorset → England →
positionHeld	President of the Society of Authors →
religion	agnosticism →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Emma Gifford → Florence Dugdale →
writingStyle	critique of social constraints → focus on rural life → pessimistic tone →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alfred, Lord Tennyson → Charles Dickens → John Milton →	influenced
John Irving → Siegfried Sassoon →	influencedBy
The Cornhill Magazine →	contributor
Faulks on Fiction →	featuresAuthor
Dorset →	hasHistoricFigure
King’s College London →	hasNotableAlumni
Royal Society of Literature →	hasNotableFellow
Thomas Hardy →	name
Poets’ Corner →	notableBurial
Victorian era →	notableFigure