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Some time in the early 19th century, Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old journeyman hay-trusser, is wandering the Wessex countryside with his wife Susan and their infant daughter Elizabeth-Jane in search of work when he arrives in the village of Weydon-Priors note Fictional counterpart of Weyhill in Hampshire. Like many of Hardy's novels, it is set in the fictional county of Wessex in south-west England, and particularly in and around Casterbridge, the fictional counterpart of Hardy's childhood hometown of Dorchester.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (or, to give it its full title, The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character) was Thomas Hardy's tenth published novel, written in 1884-85 and published in 1886.