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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Isobel Lewis

Far from the Madding Crowd: Students warned of ‘upsetting scenes’ in Thomas Hardy novel

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Students at the University of Warwick are being given content warnings about potentially “upsetting scenes” in Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd.

Released in 1874, the novel is set in the rural south-west of England and tells the story of a young woman, Bathsheba Everdene, living in the fictional countryside village of Wessex.

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