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presentation of themes of progress, primitivism, sexuality, religion, nature and naturalism. However, this is complicated by the economic role Wessex played in Hardy's career. Considering himself primarily to be a poet, Hardy wrote novels mostly to earn money. Books that could be marketed under the Hardy brand of "Wessex novels" were particularly lucrative, which gave rise to a tendency to sentimentalised, picturesque, populist descriptions of Wessex (which, as a glance through most tourist giftshops in the south-west reveals, remain popular with consumers today).
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Hardy's resurrection of the name "Wessex" is largely responsible for the popular modern use of the term to describe the south-west region of
England (with the exception of Cornwall and arguably Devon). Today, a panoply of organisations take their name from Hardy to describe their relationship to the
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was also referred to but named "Off Wessex". Similarly, the nature and significance of ideas of "Wessex" were developed over a long series of novels through a lengthy period of time. The idea of Wessex plays an important artistic role in Hardy's works (particularly his later novels), assisting the
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The actual definition of "Hardy's Wessex" varied widely throughout Hardy's career, and was not definitively settled until after he retired from writing novels. When he created the concept of a fictional Wessex, it consisted merely of the small area of Dorset in which Hardy grew up; by the time he
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Jack
Durbeyfield visits the doctor in Shaston and learns that he has a bad heart. (TotD) Mr. Phillotson moves there to run a school. Jude Fawley travels there to see Sue Bridehead, who, married to Mr. Phillotson, is working in the town, and they flee the place together. (JtO)
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area. Hardy's conception of Wessex as a separate, cohesive geographical and political identity has proved powerful, although it was originally created purely as an artistic conceit, and has spawned a lucrative tourist trade, and even a devolutionist
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and others, have painted or drawn the landscapes, places and buildings described in Hardy's novels. Their work was used to illustrate books exploring the real-life countryside on which the fictional county of Wessex was based:
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Where Jude Fawley goes to become a scholar, and is advised to give up his career choice. Sue
Bridehead works in a shop which produces religious artefacts there, meets her cousin, and is thrown from her lodgings.
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Drusilla Fawley runs a bakery there. It is the place where Sue
Bridehead spent her childhood. Jude Fawley is brought there following the death of his father, and it is where he matures into a man. (JtO)
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It is there that Jude Fawley meets up with his old teacher Mr. Phillotson again. It is where Sue
Bridehead starts to work as a teacher and promises herself in marriage to Mr. Phillotson. (JtO)
245:, although today a separate administrative county, was considered to be a part of the county of Hampshire – and thus Upper Wessex – during Thomas Hardy's lifetime. Likewise, Alfredston (
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Durbeyfield is born and brought up there. After becoming pregnant by Alec D'Urberville she returns to the village and gives birth to a baby boy, who dies in infancy. (TotD)
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52:. Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave the place a fictional name. For example, Hardy's home town of
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Cytherea and Owen's hometown. Although
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Here is situated the Church of the d'Urbervilles. After Tess' Father's death, the
Durbeyfield family take refuge outside the chapel. (TotD)
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Where Jude and Sue lived together after Sue left
Phillotson. It is also where Arabella used to work as a barmaid before she met Jude. (JtO)
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Durbeyfield lives with Alec d'Urberville, and where she murders him upon the return of her husband, Angel Clare. (TotD).
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Thomas Hardy's birthplace. Hardy's heart is also buried here, next to his first wife, Emma. Jude Fawley's father died there. (JtO)
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Combe Martin is actually in Devon, indicating that Hardy's boundaries are not necessarily linked to current county boundaries
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Where Fanny Robin dies at the poorhouse, and whose Corn Exchange is frequently visited by Bathsheba and Boldwood. (FftMC)
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Jude Fawley becomes a mason's apprentice there. It is also where he works following his marriage to Arabella Donn. (JtO)
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on which the approximate regions of Wessex can be found. Hardy did not always use the historic boundaries in his writings
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249:) and the surrounding area in North Wessex was part of Berkshire prior to the 1974 boundary changes but now lies in
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Tess and Angel fled to an unoccupied manor house in Bramshurst near the end of the novel. (TotD)
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Tait, Adrian (Autumn 2013). "Hardy, Sassoon, and Wessex: The Enduring Appeal of the Immutable".
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as "within hail of the Wessex border, and almost with the tip of one small toe within it". (DR)
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Dana Huntley, "Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Country". British Heritage Travel page, 27 January 2021
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On the way home from Budmouth, Dick and Fancy confessed to each other. (UtGT)
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Darby, H.C. (July 1948). "The Regional Geography of Thomas Hardy's Wessex".
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Bennett, Alan (2008). "Hardy's Wessex in Railway Representations".
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Birch, B.P. (1981). "Wessex, Hardy and the Nature Novelists".
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he described Wessex as "a merely realistic dream country".
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by Bertram Windle, 1902, based on correspondence with Hardy
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The Hardy country; literary landmarks of the Wessex novels
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Outer Wessex is sometimes referred to as Nether Wessex.
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/153/153-h/153-h.htm#5-7
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/153/153-h/153-h.htm#5-7
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Farrell, John P. (Autumn 2010). "Hardy versus Wessex".
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Where Great Wessex Agricultural Show was held. (JtO)
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Nearest town and railway station to Welland. (ToaT)
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/143/143-h/143-h.htm
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Lord Helmsdale was the bishop of Melchester. (ToaT)
2147:Thomas Hardy: A Textual Study of the Short Stories
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1494:Farms of Bathsheba and Boldwood, main setting for
1216:Where Lucetta and Farfrae secretly married. (MoC)
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904:The principal location of the Well-Beloved. (WB)
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1674:Hardy's geography: Wessex and the regional novel
78:, the boundaries had extended to include all of
56:is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in
44:of England. Hardy named the area "Wessex" after
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2177:. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 170.
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2790:The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall
1427:The main street on Isle of Slingers, where
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2350:"Hardy's Wessex", The Thomas Hardy Society
2300:, Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972.
265:Key to references for the place name table
132:Wessex regions and actual English counties
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1462:Site of the D'Urberville estate. (TotD)
1154:Where the main character is a priest in
955:, which is to the south-east of Fawley.
260:Specific places in Thomas Hardy's Wessex
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110:(renamed "Christminster" in the novel).
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1868:"Exploring Thomas Hardy's West Dorset"
2900:Fictional populated places in England
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2276:, Wimborne: The Dovecote Press, 2016.
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1660:(New York: D. Appleton and co. 1922).
2207:Paragraph 6, Chapter X, Part Third,
2119:"Thomas Hardy's Dorset inspirations"
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16:Fictional setting for Hardy's novels
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2024:Kester Rattenbury (February 2018).
1846:"An Introduction To Hardy's Wessex"
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987:Where Lord Mountclere lived. (HoE)
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2150:. London: Routledge. p. 105.
1618:(London, A. & C. Black, 1904).
1606:(London, New York, J. Lane, 1902).
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1669:(London, Macmillan and co. 1911).
1266:It is also where Sue Bridehead's
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1949:10.1179/193489010X12858552463204
46:the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom
2274:Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex
2255:, Guernsey: Toucan Press, 1972.
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2823:Florence Dugdale (second wife)
2345:"Hardy's Wessex", Dorset Guide
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1801:"Map of Thomas Hardy's Wessex"
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2633:Wessex Poems and Other Verses
2601:Barbara of the House of Grebe
2561:A Changed Man and Other Tales
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446:Appearance in Hardy's Novels
413:Wessex Poems and Other Verses
2757:The Convergence of the Twain
2262:, Allison & Busby, 1987.
1106:is set in Mellstock. (UtGT)
142:historic counties of England
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2291:Thomas Hardy's Wessex Scene
2258:Joanna Cullen Brown (ed.),
1692:Hardy country water-colours
1639:(Blackie & Son, 1910?).
696:Arabella's hometown. (JtO)
127:Thomas Hardy's Wessex names
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2615:A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
2438:Far from the Madding Crowd
2317:, London: Macmillan, 1913.
2310:, London: Macmillan, 1925.
2298:Hardy's Wessex Reappraised
2286:, London: Macmillan, 1983.
2267:Discovering Hardy's Wessex
2171:Harper, Charles G (1904).
1710:Far from the Madding Crowd
1603:The Wessex of Thomas Hardy
1518:Far From the Madding Crowd
1497:Far From the Madding Crowd
1361:The principal location of
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1272:The principal location of
1194:The principal location of
1156:A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
1138:Where Charmond lived. (W)
1122:Where Charmond lived. (W)
593:The principal location of
303:Far from the Madding Crowd
65:Far from the Madding Crowd
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2406:The Poor Man and the Lady
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2293:, London: Longmans, 1948.
2233:The Mayor of Casterbridge
2064:"Wessex Novel Placenames"
2026:"The Invention of Wessex"
1999:The Hardy Society Journal
1732:The North American Review
1706:The Mayor of Casterbridge
1654:& E. Harries (ill.).
595:The Mayor of Casterbridge
384:Tess of the d'Urbervilles
357:The Mayor of Casterbridge
59:The Mayor of Casterbridge
2608:The Fiddler of the Reels
2454:The Return of the Native
2422:Under the Greenwood Tree
1972:The Thomas Hardy Journal
1701:Thomas Hardy's Locations
1695:(A & C Black, 19??).
1627:(A & C Black, 1906).
1431:mostly took place. (WB)
1104:Under the Greenwood Tree
321:The Return of the Native
285:Under the Greenwood Tree
121:Wessex Regionalist Party
2736:The Respectable Burgher
2664:Satires of Circumstance
2529:Short story collections
2088:. Thomas Hardy's Wessex
1094:and Higher & Lower
2808:Thomas Hardy's Cottage
2750:A Trampwoman's Tragedy
2545:A Group of Noble Dames
2446:The Hand of Ethelberta
2324:, Pitkin Guides, 1978.
1596:B. C. A. Windle &
1274:The Hand of Ethelberta
1158:a short story part of
312:The Hand of Ethelberta
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2649:Time's Laughingstocks
2553:Life's Little Ironies
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2315:Thomas Hardy's Wessex
2306:Highways & Byways
2269:, Arcady Books, 1982.
1848:. South Coast Central
1666:Thomas Hardy's Wessex
1657:Thomas Hardy's Dorset
1589:Charles George Harper
1516:Bathsheba's farm, in
1160:Life's Little Ironies
658:, he describes it in
154:Actual English County
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34:Thomas Hardy's Wessex
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2296:Denys Kay-Robinson,
2265:Anne-Marie Edwards,
2144:Ray, Martin (2016).
2086:"Wessex place-names"
1824:"Wessex Place Names"
2890:Fictional universes
2722:The Darkling Thrush
2580:The Three Strangers
2430:A Pair of Blue Eyes
1906:1981TrIBG...6..348B
1771:1948GeoRv..38..426D
1759:Geographical Review
1679:Andrew D. Radford,
1652:R. Thurston Hopkins
1642:Charles G. Harper.
1636:The Heart of Wessex
835:Dole's Ash Farm at
294:A Pair of Blue Eyes
2880:England in fiction
2625:Poetry collections
2414:Desperate Remedies
1822:Birchall, Eugene.
1676:. Palgrave, 2002.
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276:Desperate Remedies
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2743:The Man He Killed
2672:Moments of Vision
2462:The Trumpet-Major
2308:in Hardy's Wessex
2066:. Dorsetshire.com
1803:. British Library
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2680:Late Lyrics
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2129:25 November
2092:25 November
2070:25 November
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1852:25 November
1830:25 November
1807:25 November
1483:Weatherbury
1436:Toneborough
1400:Stourcastle
1391:Basingstoke
1376:Stalbridge
1370:Stapleford
1363:A Laodicean
1288:Shaftesbury
1260:Bournemouth
1237:Quartershot
1096:Bockhampton
482:Aldbrickham
458:Cerne Abbas
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339:A Laodicean
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1525:Wellbridge
1490:Puddletown
1451:Trantridge
1253:Sandbourne
1205:Port Bredy
1167:Nuttlebury
1150:West Coker
1060:Mid Wessex
1057:Melchester
967:Bere Regis
949:Hungerford
943:runs past
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815:Falls Park
774:Beaminster
754:Off Wessex
743:Fordington
728:Barnstaple
721:Downstaple
714:Broadlands
701:Deansleigh
685:Cresscombe
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1458:Pentridge
1334:Solentsea
1305:Sherborne
1244:Aldershot
1228:Portesham
1183:Overcombe
1111:Middleton
1092:Stinsford
1085:Mellstock
1064:Salisbury
1040:Marygreen
960:Kingsbere
941:Salisbury
877:Havenpool
783:Evershead
767:Emminster
758:St Juliot
751:Endelstow
631:Cranborne
539:Lyndhurst
514:Anglebury
231:Hampshire
192:Berkshire
179:Wiltshire
100:Berkshire
96:Hampshire
84:Wiltshire
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1467:Warborne
1341:Southsea
1314:Slingers
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1212:Bridport
1070:ministry
1031:Marnhull
976:Knollsea
846:Fountall
799:Exonbury
790:Evershot
736:Durnover
555:Weymouth
548:Budmouth
467:Abbotsea
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1008:Lumsdon
983:Swanage
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2699:(1928)
2691:(1925)
2683:(1922)
2675:(1917)
2667:(1914)
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