Editing Thomas Hardy (section)

=== Personal ===
[[File:Max Gate.jpg|thumb|Max Gate in 2015]]
In 1870, while on an architectural mission to restore the [[St Julitta's Church, St Juliot|parish church of St Juliot]] in Cornwall,<ref>Gibson, James (ed.) (1975) Chosen Poems of Thomas Hardy, London: Macmillan Education; p.9.</ref> Hardy met and fell in love with [[Emma Gifford]], whom he married on 17 September 1874, at St Peter's Church, [[Paddington]], London.<ref>Michael Millgate, ‘Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33708 accessed 7 Feb 2016]</ref><ref name="freebmd.org.uk">{{cite web |title=FreeBMD Home Page |url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211091910/https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ |archive-date=11 December 2020 |access-date=22 May 2016 |website=freebmd.org.uk}}</ref><ref>Hardy, Emma (1961) Some Recollections by Emma Hardy; with some relevant poems by Thomas Hardy; ed. by Evelyn Hardy & R. Gittings. London: Oxford University Press</ref><ref>"Thomas Hardy – the Time-Torn Man" (a reading of [[Claire Tomalin]]'s book of the same name), [[BBC Radio 4]], 23 October 2006</ref> The couple rented St David's Villa, Southborough (now [[Surbiton]]) for a year. In 1885 Thomas and his wife moved into [[Max Gate]] in [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]], a house designed by Hardy and built by his brother. Although they became estranged, Emma's death in 1912 had a traumatic effect on him and Hardy made a trip to Cornwall after her death to revisit places linked with their courtship; his ''[[Poems 1912–13]]'' reflect upon her death. In 1914, Hardy married his secretary [[Florence Dugdale|Florence Emily Dugdale]], who was 39 years his junior. He remained preoccupied with his first wife's death and tried to overcome his remorse by writing poetry.

In his later years, he kept a [[Wire Fox Terrier]] named Wessex, who was notoriously ill-tempered. Wessex's grave stone can be found on the Max Gate grounds.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/30/biography.thomashardy “At home with the wizard”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217082546/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/30/biography.thomashardy |date=17 February 2018 }}. The Guardian, Retrieved 10 July 2019</ref><ref name="BBC100304">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/days_out/thomas_hardy_stourhead.shtml |title=Wiltshire Days Out – Thomas Hardy at Stourhead |publisher=BBC |access-date=19 May 2014 |archive-date=9 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309014751/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/entertainment/days_out/thomas_hardy_stourhead.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1910 Hardy was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Merit]] and was also for the first time nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. He was nominated again for the prize 11 years later and by 1927 had received a total of 25 nominations.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28393 |date=8 July 1910 |page=4857}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=3892 |title=Nomination Database |date=April 2020 |access-date=14 June 2017 |archive-date=23 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923194359/https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=3892 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1923 he was one of the final candidates for the prize, but did not win.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Asaid |first=Alan |date=11 December 2012 |title=Yeats och Nobelpriset |url=https://www.kulturdelen.com/2012/12/11/yeats-och-nobelpriset/ |publisher=kulturdelen.com |language=sv}}</ref>