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Tess of the d'Urbervilles Author Biography
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in a small village in Dorset, an area of southern
England steeped in history. One of the local landmarks, Corfe Castle, was
once home for the kings of the ancient Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Hardy chose
the name Wessex for the setting of his most important novels, including Tess
of the dUrbervilles. Like the Durbeyfields in Tess the Hardys
fancied themselves descendants of a noble and ancient family line. The Dorset
Hardys were presumably a branch of the Le Hardys who claimed descent from
Clement Le Hardy, a fifteenth-century lieutenant governor of the British
Channel island of Jersey. Remote ties to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman
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