| 1871 |
Desperate
Remedies (3 vols. London: Tinsley Bros.) |
| 1872 |
Under the Greenwood
Tree (2 vols. London: Tinsley Bros.) |
| 1873 |
A Pair of Blue Eyes
(3 vols. London: Tinsley Bros.) |
| 1874 |
Far from the Madding
Crowd (2 vols. London: Smith, Elder and Co.). Hardy uses "Wessex"
for the first time. |
| 1876 |
The Hand of Ethelberta
(2 vols. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.)
George Eliot uses "Wessex" in Daniel Deronda
but discontinues her use after the first book of the novel. |
| 1878 |
The Return of the
Native (3 vols. (London: Smith, Elder and Co.). Hardy includes
the first known map as
frontispiece to this edition. |
| 1880 |
The Trumpet-Major
(3 vols. London: Smith, Elder and Co.) |
| 1881 |
A Laodicean (Franklin
square library. No. 215. New York: Harper and Bros.; first English
edition: 3 vols. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington,
1881) |
| 1882 |
Two on a Tower
(3 vols. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington) |
| 1886 |
The Mayor of Casterbridge
(2 vols. London: Smith, Elder, and Co.) |
| 1887 |
The Woodlanders (3 vols.
London: Macmillan) |
| 1891 |
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(3 vols. London: Osgood, McIlvaine)
An illustrated review
appears anonymously in the Bookman (London). It contains
what appear to be the first
map of Hardy's fictional region. |
| 1894 |
Annie Macdonnell publishes
her Thomas Hardy's Wessex — a book that includes the
second known map
of Hardy's entire fictional region. |
| 1895/96 |
Publication of the first
collected edition of Hardy's works: Wessex Novels Edition (London:
Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.) Each volume contains Hardy's
map of Wessex. |
| 1895 |
Jude the Obscure
(London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.) [dated 1896, published as volume
8 of the Wessex Novels Edition] |
| 1897 |
The Well-Beloved
(London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.) [included into the Wessex Novels
Edition as volume 17] |
| 1902 |
Uniform
Edition (London: Macmillan)
Bertram Windle publishes his The Wessex of Thomas Hardy's Novels
and Poems that also includes a map
of Wessex. Hardy's
letters show that he advised Windle on his fictional region. |
| 1906 |
Pocket
Edition (London: Macmillan) |
| 1910 |
Hardy is awarded the Freedom
of Dorchester. In his speech
he explains his understanding of Wessex. |
| 1911 |
Outwin Saxleby's A
Thomas Hardy Dictionary is published containing a map
of Wessex. |
| 1912 |
Publication of the second
collected edition of Hardy's works: Wessex
Edition (London: Macmillan). Hardy writes the "General Prefac
to the Novels ond Poems" in which he outlines his concept
of Wessex; he classifys
his works; and includes a new map
of Wessex in each volume. |
