But they also found him somewhat off-putting for his depressing attitude. People generally were impressed with Hardy's writing chops, his skills with language, and his characters. Overall, the novel got fairly mixed reviews. Belgravia was known for being highly sensational, or over-the-top, which may account for some of the more melodramatic elements in The Return of the Native. This novel was published in a serial magazine called Belgravia in twelve installments during the year 1878. The Return of the Native was Hardy's sixth published and seventh completed novel – his first novel was apparently so crappy that he never published it, upon the advice of his friend and mentor George Meredith. And we can see some signs of things to come in Hardy's reaction to the criticism The Return of the Native received. What's the deal? Well, Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure (1895) received such scathing reviews that he swore off the whole novel-writing business and decided to just go back to poetry for the rest of his life. But he pretty much stopped publishing novels and prose by the end of the nineteenth century. Hardy was born in 1840 and died in 1928 – so he lived to be crazy old. Whatever his motives for writing them, his novels are what most people remember him for, and his novels brought him fame (and notoriety) in his own lifetime. Instead, Hardy thought of himself as a poet who just wrote novels on the side to make some cash. Thomas Hardy actually didn't consider himself much of a novelist, even though he is now super famous for his novels.
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