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Thomas Hardy's Wessex

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 south and southwest of England. Hardy named the area "Wessex" after the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom that existed in this part of that country prior to the unification of England by Æthelstan. 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 Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in The Mayor of Casterbridge. In an 1895 preface to the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd he described Wessex as "a merely realistic dream country".

Thomas Hardy's Wessex names
Wessex regions and actual English counties on which the approximate regions of Wessex can be found. Hardy did not always use the historic boundaries in his writings (Note: The Isle of Wight, 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 (Wantage) and the surrounding area in North Wessex was part of Berkshire prior to the 1974 boundary changes but now lies in administrative Oxfordshire.) Outer Wessex is sometimes referred to as Nether Wessex. Specific places in Thomas Hardy's Wessex Key to references for the place name table The abbreviations for Thomas Hardy's novels that are used in the table are as follows: • DR – Desperate Remedies (1871) • UtGT – Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) • PoBE – A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) • FftMC – Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) • HoE – The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) • RotN – The Return of the Native (1878) • TM – The Trumpet-Major (1880) • L – A Laodicean (1881) • ToaT – Two on a Tower (1882) • MoC – The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) • W – The Woodlanders (1887) • WT – Wessex Tales (1888) • TotD – ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' (1891) • JtO – Jude the Obscure (1895) • WB – The Well-Beloved (1897) • WP – Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898) • LLI – ''Life's Little Ironies '' (1894) • D – The Dynasts (1904-8) Table of Wessex place-names, their actual places, and their appearance in Hardy's novels ==In art and books==
In art and books
Artists such as Walter Tyndale, Edmund Hort New, Charles George Harper 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: • B. C. A. Windle & E. H. New (ill.). The Wessex of Thomas Hardy (London, New York, J. Lane, 1902). • Charles G. Harper. The Hardy country; literary landmarks of the Wessex novels (London, A. & C. Black, 1904). • Clive Holland. Wessex (A & C Black, 1906). • Sidney Heath.The Heart of Wessex (Blackie & Son, 1910?). • Charles G. Harper. Wessex ("Beautiful Britain", London: A. & C. Black, 1911). • R. Thurston Hopkins & E. Harries (ill.). ''Thomas Hardy's Dorset'' (New York: D. Appleton and co. 1922). • Hermann Lea. ''Thomas Hardy's Wessex'' (London, Macmillan and co. 1911). • Ralph Pite, ''Hardy's geography: Wessex and the regional novel''. Palgrave, 2002. • Andrew D. Radford, Mapping the Wessex novel: landscape, history and the parochial in British literature, 1870–1940. (London; New York: Continuum International Pub., 2010. • Walter Tyndale. Hardy country water-colours (A & C Black, 19??). • Barry J Cade. ''Thomas Hardy's Locations (Casterbridge Publishing Limited 2015) A full colour tourist guide to the places Hardy had in mind when he wrote The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far from the Madding Crowd''. ==References==
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