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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) set his best-known novels in Wessex, a fictional region named for an Old English kingdom, which he centered on his native county of Dorset, where he lived most of his life and where his heart is buried. Yet Hardy lived in London from 1862 to 1867 and again during 1878–81, and thereafter he and his wife spent several months each year in the metropolis until 1910. In a lette...Log In or Sign Up to Read More