Beyond Egdon Dorset

Hardy’s fictional territory is the outward extension of a very narrow landscape centred on his birthplace at Higher Bockhampton. Beyond Egdon lies a fertile landscape nourished by the waters of the Frome (The Valley of the Great Dairies) and the Piddle (Weatherbury, Longpuddle, Kingsbere and Millpond St Jude). This is Hardy’s childhood stamping ground and the countryside of his core fiction including Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders and The Mayor of Casterbridge, as well as the short stories ‘The Waiting Supper’, ‘The Three Strangers’ and ‘A Few Crusted Characters’.

• Associated pages
• Egdon Heath
• Beyond Egdon
• Mellstock

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Rescheduled Annual THS Study Day 2021

On 23/10/2021
Starts 09:15 until 18:00

A Walk to Rainbarrow and Mistover Knap, Where Tess and Eustacia Overlap

On 24/10/2021
Starts 10:00 until 15:30

Thomas Hardy Society Birthday Weekend 2021

Jun2021

Thomas Hardy and Religion by Richard Franklin

May2021

The Folio Society - Collected Poems by Thomas Hardy

May2021

Call for Papers: 'Green Hardy'

Apr2021