Beyond Egdon Dorset - Thomas Hardy Country

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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Dr Hugh Epstein - The Nature of Awareness in Hardy's Fiction CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME
Dr Hugh Epstein - The Nature of Awareness in Hardy's Fiction CHANGE OF DATE AND TIME
On 12/12/2020
Starts 10:00 until 11:30
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Pascale Petit - Tiger Girl
Pascale Petit - Tiger Girl
Nov2020
A Review of the Inspired By Thomas Hardy Poetry Anthologies
A Review of the Inspired By Thomas Hardy Poetry Anthologies
Nov2020
A Letter to the Dorset Echo Protesting Housing Development Proposals
A Letter to the Dorset Echo Protesting Housing Development Proposals
Nov2020
Make Your Voice Heard! Support STAND! Save Hardy's Wessex!
Make Your Voice Heard! Support STAND! Save Hardy's Wessex!
Nov2020

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