"The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a 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 standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886. The novel is considered to be one of the 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."
"of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" and ""Far from the Madding Crowd"", were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in Higher Bockhampton (then Upper Bockhampton), a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England, where his father Thomas (1811–1892) worked as a stonemason and local builder, and married his mother Jemima (née Hand; 1813–1904) in Beaminster, towards the end of 1839. Jemima"
"their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England. Hardy's Wessex excluded Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but the city of Oxford, which he called ""Christminster"", was visited as part of Wessex in ""Jude the Obscure"". He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as ""North Wessex"". The film ""Shakespeare in Love"" included a character called ""Lord Wessex"" – a title which did not exist in Elizabethan times. The ITV television series ""Broadchurch"" takes place in the Wessex area, primarily the county of"
"Fawley, Berkshire Fawley is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. The hub of the village is centred east of Lambourn and has a sub-community within its bounds, Little or South Fawley. It includes a depopulated small hill settlement of Whatcombe. Fawley was the poor and depressed home of author Thomas Hardy's maternal grandmother – the main character in ""Jude the Obscure"", stonemason Jude Fawley, lived in a fictional village Marygreen, and a relative, one of his biographers, links the memories of this woman to the book's bleak start. The area is wholly on part of the escarpment"
"of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at ""Christminster"", a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and Arabella leaves Jude and later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage."
"in one of Thomas Hardy's novels. Cosmore Cosmore is a small village in Dorset, situated just off the main A352 Sherborne-Dorchester road. It sits at the foot of Dogbury Hill, one of Dorset's highest points. It is bounded by two minor rivers, to the East by the Caundle Brook, and to the west, the River Lydden. There are 18 separate dwellings within the village, and the population is 45-50. The village is located 9 miles North of the county town, Dorchester, and 11 miles south of the historic Abbey town of Sherborne. Historic buildings include the 18th century Revel's Inn"
"Wessex as """"a merely realistic dream country"""". 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 wrote ""Jude the Obscure"", the boundaries had extended to include all of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire, much of Berkshire, and some of Oxfordshire, with its most north-easterly point being Oxford (renamed ""Christminster"" in the novel). Cornwall was also referred to but named"
"subsequent films starred Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Fay Holden as Mrs. Hardy, and Ann Rutherford as Polly Benedict. The Hardys' oldest child, married daughter Joan Hardy Martin, appeared only in the first film. Most of the movies were set in the Hardys' fictional hometown of Carvel, located in Idaho in the original play, but described in the films as being in the Midwest (except for the short ""Andy Hardy's Dilemma"" where Carvel is mentioned as being a suburb of Los Angeles). All of the films were sentimental comedies celebrating ordinary American life. The people in Carvel were generally pious,"
"who planned on removing Tom from the county jail to lynch him in order to avenge Captain Walker. The story takes place in Branson County, North Carolina. Within that county, the biggest city, Troy, is mainly peaceful and undisturbed. The town lives a rather typical southern lifestyle in which the town members carry on their usual business such as working and chatting with others within the town. It is known for its “southern simplicity.” Troy is described as a town with “no very wealthy families” fitting the description of having a town of “poor whites” The town’s typical occurrences are"
"take place here. From internal evidence given in ""Sycamore Row"", Ford County is in northwest Mississippi. Ford County (short story collection) Ford County is a collection of novellas by John Grisham. His first collection of stories, it was published by Doubleday in the United States on November 3, 2009. The book contains 7 short stories: Blood Drive ; Fetching Raymond ; Fish Files ; Casino ; Michael's Room ; Quiet Haven ; Funny Boy. A young man named Bailey is injured in a construction accident, and rampant flurries of rumors quickly entice three young men to drive to Memphis to"
"Blackmore Vale. The area of Minterne, Dogbury Hill and High Stoy was the setting for Thomas Hardy's novel, ""The Woodlanders"", Minterne House being referred to as Great Hintock House. The 1990s TV film of Hardy's ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" was made on Dogbury Hill. Dogbury Hill At , Dogbury Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Dorset, England. It is the site of a prehistoric hill fort. Dogmore Hill rises just a few hundred yards north of the village of Minterne Magna in the Blackmore Vale and east of the A352 about 14 kilometres from Dorchester."
"Egdon Heath Egdon Heath is a 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 of the Native"" takes place on Egdon Heath, and it also features in ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" and the short story ""The Withered Arm"" (1888). The area is rife with witchcraft and superstition. Hardy located the Dorsetshire heath in his maps, the end-papers for editions of his work published in his lifetime, and in ""The Return of the Native"", as an amalgam of scattered areas of moorland"
"National Trust. The visitor centre opened in September 2014. Thomas Hardy's Cottage 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 was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872) and ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874)—when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford. The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction."
"served equally as Bishop of Bristol and Dean of Christ Church, Oxford for the remaining six years of his life. Of its 68 homes in 2011, 24 were privately let, the most common category in this parish. Further land use statistics were as follows: Fawley, Berkshire Fawley is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. The hub of the village is centred east of Lambourn and has a sub-community within its bounds, Little or South Fawley. It includes a depopulated small hill settlement of Whatcombe. Fawley was the poor and depressed home of author Thomas Hardy's maternal grandmother"
"Thomas Hardy's Cottage 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 was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872) and ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874)—when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford. The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction. The property has a typical cottage garden, and the"
"Hardy Way The Hardy Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in southern England in the United Kingdom. The route runs for 354 km or 220 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 portrayed in his books, such as ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"", ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"", ""Far From the Madding Crowd"", ""Jude the Obscure"" and others. It starts at Higher Bockhampton, where Hardy was born, and finishes at Stinsford churchyard, where Hardy's heart lies buried. It passes through Dorset"
"is particularly associated with the rural English Midlands, whereas Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) is the novelist of the Potteries in Staffordshire, or the ""Five Towns"", (actually six) that now make-up Stoke-on-Trent. R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century, and he shared with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. Noted for his eye for and sympathy with nature, critics of the time described this as one of the most striking features of his writings. He may be said to"
"another bastion of the chalk escarpment. A Franciscan friary lies in the hamlet of Hilfield beneath the hill to the west. The area of Minterne, Dogbury Hill and High Stoy was the setting for Thomas Hardy's novel, ""The Woodlanders"", Minterne House being referred to as Great Hintock House. The 1990s TV film of Hardy's ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" was made on Dogbury Hill. Telegraph Hill is a popular paragliding spot. Telegraph Hill, Dorset Telegraph Hill (267 metres, 876 feet high) is a hill about 1 mile northwest of Minterne Magna and about 10 miles north of Dorchester in the county"
"open to the public. Hardy is buried in Westminster Abbey, but his heart was removed and buried in Stinsford. William Barnes, the West Country dialect poet, was Rector of Winterborne Came, a hamlet near Dorchester, for 24 years until his death in 1886, and ran a school in the town. There are statues of both Barnes and Hardy in the town centre; Barnes outside St. Peter's Church, and Hardy's beside the Top o' Town crossroads. John Cowper Powys's novel ""Maiden Castle"" (1936) is set in Dorchester and Powys intended it to be ""a Rival of the ""Mayor of Casterbridge"". Powys"
"Hardy, Saskatchewan Hardy is a hamlet in The Gap Rural Municipality No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada. The community had a population of 5 in 2001. It previously held the status of village until January 1, 2000. The hamlet is located 82 km south east of the City of Weyburn 10 km west of highway 6 and 5 km north of highway 705. Hardy was named for the great 19th-century English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. Prior to January 1, 2000, Hardy was incorporated as a village, and was restructured as a hamlet under the jurisdiction of the Rural municipality of The"
"put in jeopardy by his opposition of a wasteful public works program. In Carvel, a small, fictional midwestern American town, lives the Hardy family of Judge James K Hardy, wife Emily, adult daughters Joan and Marion, and teenage son Andy (Mickey Rooney). Judge Hardy (Lionel Barrymore) is well admired and respected. However his chances for being re-elected as Judge are threatened when he blocks the construction of a $30,000,000 aqueduct. Spurned, contractor Hoyt Wells and newspaper publisher Frank Redmond swear to block his re-election campaign. Frank agrees to use his paper, The Carvel Star to publish disparaging stories about the"
"the ensuing Norman Conquest of England, and as the Norman kings soon did away with the great earldoms of the late Anglo-Saxon period, 1066 marks the extinction of Wessex as a political unit. From the second edition (1989) of the ""Oxford English Dictionary"": Wessex 1. The name of a kingdom in south-west England in Anglo-Saxon times, used by Thomas Hardy as the name of the county in which his stories are set (corresponding approximately to Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire) and since used as a name for south-west England or this part of it. Wessex is often symbolised by a"
"that their estate of Seven Springs, also there is the court house which gives the town its name, the Faulconer County Bank, the local school at which Major Thaddeus ""Pecker"" Bird teaches along with his wife Priscilla. Faulconer County Faulconer County is a fictional county in the state of Virginia, a setting in the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell set during the American Civil War. Faulconer County is the historical home of the Faulconer family, who in 1861 are headed by Washington Faulconer, his wife Miriam and their children Adam Faulconer and Anna, who is engaged to Ethan Ridley. The"
"by Stephen Frears. Literature Waterloo Sunset - Ray Davies - The Kinks- reference to Terry & Julie Far from the Madding Crowd Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in ""Cornhill Magazine"", where it gained a wide readership. The novel is the first to be set in Hardy's fictional region of Wessex in rural south west England. It deals in themes of love, honour and betrayal, against a backdrop of the seemingly idyllic, but often harsh, realities of a farming community in"
"the assassin Grimalkin and the young witch Alice Dean; overall the series develops the plot line of Tom being destined to either save the world or destroy it. ""The County"" referred to in the ""Chronicles"" is based on Lancashire in the north west of England. Several of the locations mentioned in the books are thinly-veiled versions of actual places; Priestown is the author's hometown of Preston, Caster is Lancaster, Black Pool is Blackpool, and Chipenden is Chipping. ""The Starblade Chronicles"" are a planned trilogy following the continued adventures of Tom Ward, who has finished his apprenticeship and is now a"
"Chibnall's decision to set the show on the Jurassic Coast also helped him generate more ideas for the show and tighten the writing. For example, Dorset's most famous native son, poet and author Thomas Hardy, lent his last name to one of the main characters (DI Alec Hardy). Hardy's use of the term ""Wessex"" was used to name the fictional Wessex Police, and character Jack Marshall reads the Hardy novel ""Jude the Obscure"". The series' name also came from the Dorset setting. Chibnall invented the name ""Broadchurch"" based on two settlements in Dorset: ""I thought a lot about the literary"
"to the fictitious community of Treby in the English Midlands in 1832, around the time of the First Reform Act. Harold Transome, a local landowner, has returned home after a fifteen-year trading career in the Middle East. Wealthy from trade, he stands for election to Parliament from the county seat of North Loamshire. But contrary to his family's Tory traditions, he intends to stand as a Radical. This alienates him from his traditional allies and causes despair for his mother, Mrs. Transome. Harold Transome gains the support of his Tory uncle, the Rector of Little Treby, and enlists the help"
"Raintree County (novel) Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. published in 1948. It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet named John Shawnessy, who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle; however, her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage. The novel, set in fictional Raintree County, Indiana, is essentially in two parts; before the Civil War and after. It spans the 19th century history of the United States, from the pre-Civil War westward expansion, to the"
"Ledshire Ledshire was a fictional county in the north of England in two novels by Susan Pleydell, ""Summer Term"" (1959) and ""A Young Man's Fancy"" (1962). It was also the name of a county in the Miss Silver novels (1928-61) of Patricia Wentworth. The Ledshire of Susan Pleydell was a small, almost entirely agricultural county. Its main (presumably, county) town, on the River Ledd, was Ledenham, the location of a 400-year-old boys' public school that was the focus of the novels. Ledenham contained ""two or three unexpectedly good hotels and shops"", as well as a Regal cinema. A major landmark"
"from the novel. Raintree County (novel) Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. published in 1948. It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet named John Shawnessy, who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle; however, her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage. The novel, set in fictional Raintree County, Indiana, is essentially in two parts; before the Civil War and after. It spans the 19th century history of the United States, from the pre-Civil War westward"
"Henry County, Indiana Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 49,462. The county seat is New Castle. Henry County is the main setting of the novel ""Raintree County"" by Ross Lockridge, Jr.. Henry County was formed in 1822. It was named for Patriot Patrick Henry, governor of Virginia. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of , of which (or 99.25%) is land and (or 0.75%) is water. Sources: National Atlas, U.S. Census Bureau In recent years, average temperatures in New Castle have ranged from"
"with his irresponsibility and sin, and issued a death threat if the younger didn’t do certain things. It is a well-written chapter. (The novel was filmed in 1919 by Paramount Pictures as ""Told in the Hills"".) The rest of the novel takes place ten years later in a location that seems to be in the northwestern corner of Montana, and would be Lincoln County. In a well-developed plot, a sweet girl from the east, Rachel Hardy, comes to Montana for a visit and decides to stay. The two brothers ultimately meet again, tensions develop between the settlers and the Native"
"the U.K. and Ireland, working on ""Torchwood"", """", and ""Camelot"". Setting the show in Dorset meant Chibnall would not have to spend time away from his home and family. Chibnall's decision to set the show on the Jurassic Coast also helped him generate more ideas for the show and tighten the writing. For example, Dorset's most famous native son, poet and author Thomas Hardy, lent his last name to one of the main characters (DI Alec Hardy). Thomas Hardy's use of the term ""Wessex"" was used as the name of the fictional Wessex Police, and character Jack Marshall reads the"