Why did Thomas Hardy give up writing novels?

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Why did Thomas Hardy give up writing novels?

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Hardy was notoriously underappreciated during his life. Like Herman Melville, he began his career as a modestly popular writer of novels, but as he grew older and became more and more daring, his readership (and the critics) quickly turned against him, leaving him bitter and destitute toward the end of his life.

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Oct 16 2009, 1:17 PM

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The charge that he wrote about sexual relationships purely for sensationalism hurt Hardy to such a degree that he quit writing novels by 1895, although he continued to live another thirty-three years.

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Oct 16 2009, 1:46 PM

Why did Thomas Hardy give up writing novels?

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