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Far From The Madding Crowd (1874) is a seminal moment in the identity of Wessex as a region. #FarFromTheMaddingCrowd #ThomasHardy #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=12086
January 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Loss and Gain is a semi-autobiographical novel by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman that tells of a young man's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism while studying at Oxford University. #JohnHenryNewman #LossandGain #WessexinFiction https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11290
January 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The Well-Beloved was Thomas Hardy's penultimate novel, though it was only collected into book form in 1897, having previously been serialised in the Illustrated London News five years earlier. #WessexinFiction #ThomasHardy https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11374
January 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The office of crowner (coroner) was established during the reign of Richard I, to protect the financial interests of the Crown in each county of England. #CrownerJohn #WessexinFiction https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11392
January 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Rebels and Traitors is a historical novel by Lindsey Davis set during the English Civil War, partly in Oxford. It has been compared in its scope to Gone With The Wind. #RebelsandTraitors #WessexinFiction https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11423
January 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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She Died A Lady is a 1943 mystery novel by Carter Dixon (pen name of John Dickson Carr) set in the Exmoor village of Lynmouth, and part of the Sir Henry Merrivale series.#WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11588
January 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The Black Tower is the fifth in PD James's series of detective novels featuring Commander Adam Dalgliesh. It is set in Dorset #AdamDalgliesh #PDJames #TheBlackTower #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11730
January 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The Slaves of Solitude is a 1947 black comedy by Patrick Hamilton set during World War 2 in the fictional Berkshire town of Thames Lockdon, #TheSlavesofSolitude #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11774
January 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11801
January 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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DCI Endeavour Morse is a fictional detective first created by Colin Dexter in 1972, though the first novel. Last Bus to Woodstock, was not published until 1975. Dexter decided on the setting, Oxford, early on. #InspectorMorse #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11818
January 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The Late Scholar is the fourth and last in a series of Lord Peter Wimsey continuation novels written by Jill Paton Walsh and authorised by Dorothy L Sayers's estate. #LordPeterWimsey #TheLateScholar #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=11886
January 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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In The Place Of Fallen Leaves is the debut novel by Tim Pears, a coming-of-age tale set on the edge of Dartmoor. #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=12010
January 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Charley's Aunt is a 3-act farce by Brandon Thomas which was first performed in 1892 and has been a perennial favourite of both amateur and professional theatre companies ever since. It has been filmed several times #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=12017
January 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Thursday Next is a series of comic fantasy novels set in a alternate version of Swindon, located in the "County of Wessex"., #ThursdayNext #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=12151
January 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The September Society is the second in a series of novels by American author Charles Finch (b1980) featuring his Victorian detective Charles Lenox.#WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=12169
January 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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A Horseman Riding By is a trilogy of novels by RF Delderfield set in Devon in the period between the end of the Boer War in 1902 and the funeral of WInston Churchill in 1965. #AHorsemanRidingBy #WessexinFiction

https://wessexsociety.com/?p=12204
January 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM