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1847: A woman has three different suitors to choose from..
Far From the Madding Crowd
What you need to know before your trail
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. One of his first works set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex,
Travel Guide
Hardy’s Wessex
Wessex is of course fictional but it’s based on several places in Dorset
Hardy described his landscape “Wessex” and in Far from the Madding Crowd describes his country as the “partly real, partly dream-country” that unifies his South West England
The village of Puddletown, near Dorchester, is the inspiration for the novel’s Weatherbury. Dorchester, in turn, is said to have inspired Hardy’s Casterbridge.
True Hardy Fans should also visit Higher Bockhampton as this is where the literary man was born
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Far From the Madding Crowd
Author/Guide: Thomas Hardy Destination: “Wessex” , Dorset Departure Time: 1874
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