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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
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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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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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Bridehead starts to work as a teacher and promises herself in marriage to Mr. Phillotson. (JtO)
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Phillotson. It is also where Arabella used to work as a barmaid before she met Jude. (JtO)
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Tait, Adrian (Autumn 2013). "Hardy, Sassoon, and Wessex: The Enduring Appeal of the Immutable".
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Darby, H.C. (July 1948). "The Regional Geography of Thomas Hardy's Wessex".
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Williams, Harold (January 1914). "The Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy".
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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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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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1227:Where Lucetta and Farfrae secretly married. (MoC)
915:The principal location of the Well-Beloved. (WB)
1685:Hardy's geography: Wessex and the regional novel
89:, the boundaries had extended to include all of
67:is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in
55:of England. Hardy named the area "Wessex" after
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1165:Where the main character is a priest in
966:, which is to the south-east of Fawley.
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1879:"Exploring Thomas Hardy's West Dorset"
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2287:, Wimborne: The Dovecote Press, 2016.
1671:(New York: D. Appleton and co. 1922).
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2218:Paragraph 6, Chapter X, Part Third,
2130:"Thomas Hardy's Dorset inspirations"
1422:Tess travelled through here. (TotD)
27:Fictional setting for Hardy's novels
2035:Kester Rattenbury (February 2018).
1857:"An Introduction To Hardy's Wessex"
998:Where Lord Mountclere lived. (HoE)
2161:. London: Routledge. p. 105.
1629:(London, A. & C. Black, 1904).
1617:(London, New York, J. Lane, 1902).
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2652:Poems of the Past and the Present
1680:(London, Macmillan and co. 1911).
1277:It is also where Sue Bridehead's
1960:10.1179/193489010X12858552463204
57:the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom
2285:Exploring Thomas Hardy's Wessex
2266:, Guernsey: Toucan Press, 1972.
574:The working place of Owen. (DR)
2834:Florence Dugdale (second wife)
2356:"Hardy's Wessex", Dorset Guide
1812:"Map of Thomas Hardy's Wessex"
572:Eustacia Vye's hometown (RotN)
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2644:Wessex Poems and Other Verses
2612:Barbara of the House of Grebe
2572:A Changed Man and Other Tales
457:Appearance in Hardy's Novels
424:Wessex Poems and Other Verses
2768:The Convergence of the Twain
2273:, Allison & Busby, 1987.
1117:is set in Mellstock. (UtGT)
153:historic counties of England
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2269:Joanna Cullen Brown (ed.),
1703:Hardy country water-colours
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707:Arabella's hometown. (JtO)
138:Thomas Hardy's Wessex names
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2449:Far from the Madding Crowd
2328:, London: Macmillan, 1913.
2321:, London: Macmillan, 1925.
2309:Hardy's Wessex Reappraised
2297:, London: Macmillan, 1983.
2278:Discovering Hardy's Wessex
2182:Harper, Charles G (1904).
1721:Far from the Madding Crowd
1614:The Wessex of Thomas Hardy
1529:Far From the Madding Crowd
1508:Far From the Madding Crowd
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604:The principal location of
314:Far from the Madding Crowd
76:Far from the Madding Crowd
38:The Wessex of Thomas Hardy
36:Locations in Wessex, from
2829:Emma Gifford (first wife)
2513:Tess of the d'Urbervilles
2497:The Mayor of Casterbridge
2417:The Poor Man and the Lady
2304:, London: Longmans, 1948.
2244:The Mayor of Casterbridge
2075:"Wessex Novel Placenames"
2037:"The Invention of Wessex"
2010:The Hardy Society Journal
1743:The North American Review
1717:The Mayor of Casterbridge
1665:& E. Harries (ill.).
606:The Mayor of Casterbridge
395:Tess of the d'Urbervilles
368:The Mayor of Casterbridge
70:The Mayor of Casterbridge
2619:The Fiddler of the Reels
2465:The Return of the Native
2433:Under the Greenwood Tree
1983:The Thomas Hardy Journal
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1706:(A & C Black, 19??).
1638:(A & C Black, 1906).
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1115:Under the Greenwood Tree
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132:Wessex Regionalist Party
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2675:Satires of Circumstance
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1105:and Higher & Lower
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2761:A Trampwoman's Tragedy
2556:A Group of Noble Dames
2457:The Hand of Ethelberta
2335:, Pitkin Guides, 1978.
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2280:, Arcady Books, 1982.
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1668:Thomas Hardy's Dorset
1600:Charles George Harper
1527:Bathsheba's farm, in
1171:Life's Little Ironies
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2276:Anne-Marie Edwards,
2155:Ray, Martin (2016).
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2591:The Three Strangers
2441:A Pair of Blue Eyes
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1782:1948GeoRv..38..426D
1770:Geographical Review
1690:Andrew D. Radford,
1663:R. Thurston Hopkins
1653:Charles G. Harper.
1647:The Heart of Wessex
846:Dole's Ash Farm at
305:A Pair of Blue Eyes
2891:England in fiction
2636:Poetry collections
2425:Desperate Remedies
1833:Birchall, Eugene.
1687:. Palgrave, 2002.
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