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29: 165: 208:, rudely turning away a man named Jopp to whom he had already offered the job. Farfrae is extremely successful in the role, and increasingly outshines his employer. When he catches the eye of Elizabeth-Jane, Henchard dismisses him and Farfrae sets himself up as an independent merchant. Farfrae conducts himself with scrupulous honesty, but Henchard is so determined to ruin his rival that he makes risky business decisions that prove disastrous. 974: 345:
country people play out their lives between custom and education, work and ideas, and love of place and experience of change. Hardy's portrait of Henchard โ€“ "depressive, black-tempered, self-destructive, and also lovable as a child is lovable" โ€“ she considered one of his strongest achievements. She did concur with Hardy, however, in noting that he tried to pack in too many incidents.
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Hardy himself felt that in his efforts to get an incident into almost every weekly instalment he had added events to the narrative somewhat too freely, resulting in over-elaboration. However, he was deeply affected, telling a friend that the novel was the only tragedy that made him weep while writing
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Susan falls ill and dies shortly after the couple's remarriage, leaving Henchard a letter to be opened on the day of Elizabeth-Jane's wedding. Henchard reads the letter, which is not properly sealed, and learns that Elizabeth-Jane is not in fact his daughter, but Newson's โ€“ his Elizabeth-Jane having
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Henchard's financial difficulties persuade him that he should marry Lucetta quickly. But she is in love with Farfrae, and the couple run away one weekend to get married, not telling Henchard until after the fact. Henchard's credit collapses and he goes bankrupt. Farfrae buys Henchard's old business
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Believing the auction to be legally binding, Susan lives as Newson's wife for 18 years. After Newson is lost at sea, Susan, lacking any means of support, decides to seek out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. Susan has told Elizabeth-Jane little about Henchard, and the young woman knows
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Lucetta asks Henchard to return her old love letters, and Henchard asks Jopp to take them to her. Jopp, who still bears a grudge for having been cheated out of the position of factor, opens the letters and reads them out loud at an inn. Some of the townspeople publicly shame Henchard and Lucetta,
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Elizabeth-Jane accepts a position as companion to Lucetta, a newcomer, unaware that she had had a relationship with Henchard which resulted in her social ruin. Now wealthy after receiving an inheritance from her aunt, and learning that Henchard's wife had died, Lucetta has come to Casterbridge to
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called the book a masterpiece, a deeply imagined dramatic and poetic work, with a narrative on a grand scale and paced with extraordinary moments. She praised it as being built on the territory in which Hardy worked best, in which the rural landscape is drawn with a naturalist's eye and in which
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The next day, Newson โ€“ who it transpires was not lost at sea โ€“ arrives at Henchard's door asking about his daughter. Henchard, who has come to value her kindness to him, is afraid of losing her companionship and tells Newson she is dead. Newson leaves in sorrow. After 21 years, Henchard's vow of
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When the couple are reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship, this in his view being the simplest and most discreet way to remedy matters and to prevent Elizabeth-Jane learning of their disgrace. To do this, however, he is forced to break off an engagement with a woman
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Eventually discovering that he has been lied to, Newson returns, and Henchard disappears rather than endure a confrontation. On the day of Elizabeth-Jane's wedding to Farfrae, Henchard comes back, timidly seeking a reconciliation. She rebuffs him, and he departs for good. Later, regretting her
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Donald Farfrae, a young and energetic Scotsman passing through Casterbridge, helps Henchard by showing him how to salvage substandard grain he has bought. Henchard takes a liking to the man, persuades him not to emigrate, and hires him as his corn
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Although the opening sentence of the novel states that the events described took place "before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span" the date of Hardy's own childhood places it rather later โ€“ in the mid-to-late 1840s.
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The novel is considered to be one of Hardy's masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents, a consequence of the author trying to include something in every weekly published instalment.
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in the spring of 1884, after a three-year pause. He completed it in a little over a year, and it was first issued in weekly parts in January 1886, followed by full publication in May 1886. A reader for the publisher,
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coldness, she and Farfrae set out to find him. They arrive too late, and learn that he has died alone. They also find his last written statement: his dying wish is to be forgotten.
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and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. He has avoided explaining how he lost his wife, allowing people to assume he is a widower.
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died as an infant. Henchard's new knowledge causes him to behave coldly towards the second Elizabeth-Jane.
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only that he is a relation by marriage. Susan discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and
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among the characters made it uninteresting. It was issued with a small print run of only 750 copies.
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her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five
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where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886.
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as Donald Farfrae, Janet Dale as Susan, Andrea Wray as Elizabeth-Jane, Sandra Berkin as Lucetta,
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Richard Newson: sailor; purchases Susan and lives with her for many years as her de facto husband
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Lucetta Templeman (Le Sueur): native of Jersey who has an affair with Henchard; marries Farfrae
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marry him. However, on meeting Farfrae, she becomes attracted to him, and he to her.
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Donald Farfrae: becomes Mayor of Casterbridge after Henchard; Scotsman
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A, J (September 1951). "Miscellaneous: 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'".
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The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character
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Elizabeth-Jane I: daughter of Susan by Henchard; dies as an infant
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Wives for Sale: An Ethnographic Study of British Popular Divorce
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Elizabeth-Jane II: daughter of Susan by Newson; marries Farfrae
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Michael Henchard: hay trusser who becomes Mayor of Casterbridge
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Joshua Jopp: sometime manager with a grudge against Henchard.
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named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill.
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Henchard on the way to the fair with Susan and Elizabeth-Jane
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by Bertram Windle, 1902, based on correspondence with Hardy.
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Susan Henchard (Newson): wife of Henchard, sold to Newson
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Thomas Hardy
Hardy's Wessex novels
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Dorset

Wessex
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grain merchant
factor
journeyman
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Dorset
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Mayor Nair
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