Earlier the same day, in Dorchester, we also visited Hardy's home, Max Gate, which the National Trust opened only in 2010. I do believe this will complete our set of Hardy sites. Hardy is Vicki's thing. I know him only through the utterly depressing
Tess movie and Monty Python (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPZ5CY9KoM). Max Gate is Hardy's play upon the location of the house, at Mack's Gate to Dorchester.
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| Max Gate; they're doing some work on the house |
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| This is the study where he wrote Tess and Jude the Obscure |
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In another study; he kept moving his study and bedroom further and further from
his wife; for reasons which we'll not get into... |
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| Same room; assorted Tess's |
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| Dining room |
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| Parlor |
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| The place is awash in work by Hardy and in the vast secondary work on him |
The house and grounds are a work-in-progress but will no doubt take their place on the Hardy pilgrimage trail.
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