The Woodlanders: A Story of the Wessex Woodlands
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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In a Dorset hamlet where everyone lives by the trees, a timber merchant educates his daughter above her station and marries her to a doctor who despises the place. Around them: a man who plants saplings and says nothing, a lady in the big house, a barber after a woman's hair. Hardy trained as an architect and restored churches; he said later this was the novel of his he liked best as a story, and the woods in it are not scenery but the economy. Sixty plates by painters including Jean-François Millet and George Clausen follow the woodcutters, shepherdesses and field workers whose labour is the true subject of Hardy's story.
In a Dorset hamlet where everyone lives by the trees, a timber merchant educates his daughter above her station and marries her to a doctor who despises the place. Around them: a man who plants saplings and says nothing, a lady in the big house, a barber after a woman's hair. Hardy trained as an ...
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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset, he worked as an architect in London before returning to the region to write, setting much of his fiction in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. His works include A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Woodlanders, Under the Greenwood Tree, and the story collections Wessex Tales and Life's Little Ironies.
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset, he worked as an architect in London before returning to the region to write, setting much of his fiction in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. His works include A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Woodlanders, Under the Greenwood T...
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