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Some half-year before this, in December 1872, Hardy had received at Bockhampton a letter from Leslie Stephen, the editor of the Cornhill — by that time well known as a man of letters, Saturday reviewer, and Alpine climber — asking for a serial story for his magazine. He had lately read Under the Greenwood Tree, and thought ‘the descriptions admirable’. It was ‘long since he had received more pleasure from a new writer’, and it had occurred to him that such writing would probably please the readers of the Cornhill Magazine as much as it had pleased him.
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Hardy, F.E. (1962). ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, Marriage, and Another Novel. In: The Life of Thomas Hardy 1840–1928. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00286-3_7
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