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    That sense of insularity is seen most clearly in Far from the Madding Crowd and also in Hardy's second novel, Under the Greenwood Tree.

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    Rail service to Wessex was slow in coming; although the first train entered Dorset in the summer of , only ten years later did the completion of the Great Western Railway connect a number of places in the region with each other and London. Thus, since the railway did not arrive in the vicinity of "Weatherbury" until well after the period in which the novel is set the s of Hardy's boyhood , Macbeth-Raeburn's frontispiece is consistent with agrarian life in Dorset villages prior to the repeal of the Corn Laws.

    Nothing in Macbeth-Raeburn's illustration clashes with this generally-agreed-upon temporal setting of the novel. He does not depict the other social centre of the village, Warren's Malthouse torn down about , simply because, when he visited the village in the s, it was no longer available to him as a resource. Moreover, making the church the focal point of the frontispiece underscores its importance at several points in the narrative, the obscure burial of Fanny Robbin and the quiet, private marriage of Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Troy, events to which the story's serial artist, Helen Paterson Allingham , alerted the reader in two initial letter vignettes in the Cornhill Magazine.

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    The final initial letter vignette in the magazine serial Part 12, December foreshadows Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene's making their way under umbrellas "through the mist along the road to the church" The Osgood, McIlvaine frontispiece, in contrast to the novel's rather generalised treatment of the village and its church, offers both a clear sense of the nave, tower, and churchyard to the left and the thatched-roofed houses to the right, with a period wagon and a smock-frocked agricultural labourer carrying a scythe to imply the nature of the town's economy.

    Looking carefully above the porch, just left of centre, one may see one of the church's "gurgoyles" that figure prominently in the pathetic tale of Frank Troy's trying to provide after her death the tender attention that he should have given Fanny Robbin in life. Puddletown church — scene of the poem 'The Christening' — is the best example in Wessex of a mediaeval church that, eluding for once the hand of Victorian restorers, has retained its high box-pews, musicians' gallery, seventeenth-century wooden altar and altar rails, pulpit, prayer-desk, and ine old timbered roof.

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