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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’.
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The Trumpet-Major THS Study Day 2020 CHANGE OF VENUE!
On 24/10/2020
Starts 09:15
Starts 09:15
Thomas Hardy Society Annual General Meeting 2020
On 24/10/2020
Starts 17:30 until 18:30
Starts 17:30 until 18:30
Stinsford and North Dorchester Walk
On 25/10/2020
Starts 10:00
Starts 10:00
Dr Hugh Epstein - The Nature of Awareness in Hardy's Fiction
On 28/11/2020
Starts 10:30 until 12:00
Starts 10:30 until 12:00
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