A landscape written into Hardy
The land under threat carries deep literary resonance. Hardy drew on it repeatedly, weaving real topography into his fictional Wessex. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), Beaminster appears 17 times as “Emminster.” Hardy described it as “the basin in which Emminster and its vicarage lay” and later as “his father’s hill-surrounded little town, the Tudor […]