Thomas Hardy as a Novelist
Thomas Hardy as a Novelist As with the majority of his earlier novels, poetry, and short stories, Hardy set his “Novels of Character and Environment,” in and around Dorchester (‘Casterbridge’), near his boyhood home at Bockhampton on the outskirts of ‘Egdon’ Heath. While both Anthony Trollope (181582) and George Eliot (1819–80) employed rural locations in…
