![]() ![]() 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. ![]() In an 1895 preface to the 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd he described Wessex as "a merely realistic dream country". For example, Hardy's home town of Dorchester is called Casterbridge in his books, notably in The Mayor of Casterbridge. Although the places that appear in his novels actually exist, in many cases he gave the place a fictional name. 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. ![]() 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. Locations in Wessex, from The Wessex of Thomas Hardy by Bertram Windle, 1902, based on correspondence with Hardy ![]()
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