Powys's novel is set in the same Dorsetshire landscape Hardy wrote about, and is similar too in its immersion in the rhythms of rural life and the natural world.
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The writer in Maugham's CAKES AND ALE was based on Thomas Hardy.
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"Life being a physiological fact, its honest portrayal must be largely concerned with, for one thing, the relations of the sexes."
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Born in Dorset, Thomas Hardy wrote about his native region all his life, calling it "Wessex" in his novels. Hardy was apprenticed to an architect at 15, but began to write novels in his spare time when he was in his 20s. His first novel was rejected by George Meredith, a reader for the publisher he sent it to, but he was considered promising, and Meredith encouraged him to try again. Hardy, who had also been writing poetry, gave it up temporarily for fiction, and his first novel was published th more...
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06/02/1840 Dorsetshire, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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Loved the ending...