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Unit 24: The Nineteenth Century (Dickens, Hardy, Women Novelists)

24.3 Summary Notes

Thomas Hardy was born at Higher Bockhampton, a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the
east of Dorchester in Dorset, England.
Hardy became ill with pleurisy in December 1927 and died at Max Gate just after 9 pm on
11 January 1928, having dictated his final poem to his wife on his deathbed; the cause of
death was cited, on his death certificate, as "cardiac syncope", with "old age" given as a
contributory factor.
Hardy's work was admired by many writers of a younger generation including D. H.
Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
When we speak of the Victorian novel we do not mean that there was a conscious school of
English novel, with a consciously common style and subject-matter, a school which began
creating with the reign of Queen Victoria and which came to an end with the end of that
reign.

24.4 Keywords
Charles Dickens : Charles Dickens was born at Landport, in Portsea, on February 7,
1812, the second of eight children, to John and Elizabeth Dickens.
Thomas Hardy : Thomas Hardy, (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and
poet.

24.5 Review Questions
1. Who was Charles Dickens? Explain.
2. Who was Thomas Hardy? Explain.
3. What was Hardy Novel?
4. What is Lack of Liberalism?

Answers : Self Assessment
1. Victorian period 2. Landport 3. neighbourhood
4. monthly magazine 5. Bentley’s miscellany

24.6 Further Readings

Books A History of English Literature-Arthur-compton-Rickett, UPSPD, New Delhi.
The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 3rd edition CUP, New
Delhi, 2005: Sampson, George.
History of English Literature, Cambridge University Press, London, 1968: Legouis
and Cazamian.

Online links www.antiquemapsandprints.com/charles-dickens.htm
www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/intro.html
www.enotes.com/jude-the-obscure

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