The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge was written in 1884 and 1885, serialized in the Graphic from 2 January to 15 May 1886, and then published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1886. It was the tenth of Hardy's novels to be published, but the first to be set in the county town of Dorchester, which he renamed "Casterbridge." The novel was written while Hardy was designing and then settling into Max Gate, the home he designed just outside Dorchester and only a few miles from his birthplace at Higher Bockhampton.

Hardy made several revisions to the novel, the first for an 1887 second edition published by Sampson Low, and a more extensive revision for the 1895 Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. uniform edition (of which The Mayor became the Volume 3). As he did for most of the novels, Hardy made a final revision for Macmillan's 1912 Wessex Edition of the novels.

The Mythic Hero and The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge and Classical Tragedy

Some sites associated with The Mayor of Casterbridge:

	Map of Casterbridge
	Town Hall, Corn Market, Dorchester
	The Antelope Inn, Dorchester
	Gray's Bridge, Dorchester
	Ten Hatch's Weir, Dorchester
	Henchard's House, Dorchester
	Lucetta's House, Dorchester
	Maumbury Rings
	South Walks
	High Street, Fordington, Dorchester
	Fordington High Street, circa 1895
	High Street, Dorchester, circa 1890
	Hardy and the Barnes Theatre Company
	The first manuscript page of The Mayor of Casterbridge
	South Walks, Dorchester
	High West Street, Dorchester
	West Walks, Dorchester

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