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    Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the fictional literary landscape created by the English author Thomas Hardy as the setting for his major novels, located in the...
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    locations in Hardy's novels see: Thomas Hardy's Wessex, and the Thomas Hardy's Wessex research site, which includes maps. Hardy corresponded with and visited...
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    Far from the Madding Crowd (category Novels by Thomas Hardy)
    Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is set in Thomas Hardy's Wessex in rural southwest England, as had been his earlier Under the Greenwood...
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  • English Thomas Hardy's Wessex, a semi-fictional region of England in the novels of Thomas Hardy Westland Wessex, a helicopter Earl of Wessex, an English...
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    Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He...
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    Yorke, Barbara (1995). Wessex in the Early Middle Ages. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-7185-1856-1. The Burghal Hidage Thomas Hardy's Wessex Research site by Birgit...
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    Egdon Heath (category Thomas Hardy)
    fictitious area of Thomas Hardy's Wessex inhabited sparsely by the people who cut the furze (gorse) that grows there. The entire action of Hardy's novel The Return...
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    Tess of the d'Urbervilles (category Novels by Thomas Hardy)
    England. The novel is set in an impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex. Tess Durbeyfield, a country girl of 16, is the eldest child...
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  • poetry Thomas Hardy's Wessex Wikisource has original text related to this article: Wessex Poems and Other Verses M.Seymour-Smith, Thomas Hardy (London...
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    Wessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. In...
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    Two on a Tower (category Novels by Thomas Hardy)
    English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy. It is regarded as one of his minor works. It is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set...
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  • Mills, May 2013 The folklore and legends of Wessex, by Dale Gilbert Jarvis, January 2013 Thomas Hardy's Wessex and the Newfoundland connection, by Everard...
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    and poet Thomas Hardy. She was credited as the author of Hardy's posthumously published biography, The Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, although...
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    Stinsford, Dorset. Thomas Hardy had a wreath inscribed "From her lonely husband, with the Old Affection." Satires of Circumstance, Thomas Hardy's fourth book...
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  • The Three Strangers (category Works by Thomas Hardy)
    by Thomas Hardy, first published in Longman's Magazine and Harper's Weekly in March 1883. It later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's 1888...
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  • High-altitude platform Tiger HAP, a helicopter "Hap" (poem), in Thomas Hardy's Wessex Poems and Other Verses Hap, an archaic word for luck or fortune...
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    miles. The route is named for the writer Thomas Hardy and runs through Thomas Hardy's Wessex, his version of Wessex, the region of the West Country of England...
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  • Cornish Passion Play. In 1973 Brimble's television work began with Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales, playing the part of Willowes in Barbara of the House of Grebe...
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    and Battle of Britain classes (West Country–class locomotives) Thomas Hardy's Wessex Wessex West Country derby West of England "the West Country". Dictionary...
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    of their works here, and the South West is also the location of Thomas Hardy's Wessex, the setting for many of his best-known novels. Most of the region...
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    Jude the Obscure (category Novels by Thomas Hardy)
    Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex). He yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled...
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    also known as Bridport Harbour. The town features as Port Bredy in Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels. In the 21st century, Bridport's arts scene has expanded...
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    appeared in an episode of Wicked Women (1970), the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales (1973), A Tale of Two Cities (1980), Private Schulz (1982)...
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    The Mayor of Casterbridge (category Novels by Thomas Hardy)
    Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge...
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  • literary sources. It purposefully omits "one-to-one" maps such as Thomas Hardy's Wessex (which merely renames places in southwest England), but includes...
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  • Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates to the real-life Cerne Abbas, Dorset Abbotsea, South Wessex Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's Wessex Correlates...
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    Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels. The first of these appeared in 1874 and Hardy himself considered it the origin of the conceit of a contemporary Wessex....
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  • Lata Mangeshkar Ghosh, Oindrila. "Bollywood's Long Love Affair with Thomas Hardy's Novels: Adaptations and Cultural Appropriations". Victorian Web. Dulhan...
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  • water buffalos. Various critics compare Narayan's Malgudi with Thomas Hardy's Wessex or William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. It was a town created from...
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    1945), journalist, lives at Cerne Abbas Cerne Abbas features in Thomas Hardy's Wessex as "Abbots Cernel". School of the Night, a mystery by Judith Cook...
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