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Article: Hardy times ; Crumbling coastlines, dense forests and homity pie: a weekend on Thomas Hardy's family farm is more fun now than it was then, says Gavanndra Hodge
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2009
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As comely as Thomas Hardy's dairymaids may have been, the real
beauty in his writing belongs to the rural landscapes he describes:
the gorse moors and green meadows, thick hedgerows and misty woods
of Wessex, his fictionalised Dorset, the county of his birth. But
does this idealised version of the English countryside, this Edenic
backdrop for the ceaseless tragedies of farming folk, still exist?
There was only one way to find out: a weekend at Greenwood Grange, a
collection of newly renovated holiday cottages built on the farm
once owned by Hardy's father and just a sheep's throw from the cob
cottage where Thomas himself was born and wrote Under the Greenwood
Tree and Far from the Madding ...
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