The WellBeloved A Sketch of a Temperament is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It spans forty years, and follows Jocelyn Pierston, a celebrated sculptor who attempts to create in stone the image of his ideal woman, while he tries also to find her in the flesh.It was serialized in 1892, and published as a book in 1897.The main setting of the novel, the Isle of Slingers, is based on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, southern England.Many of Hardys novels were set in Dorset. The Well Beloved is one of Hardys last novels. It was first published in threepart serial form in 1892, and then revised and republished as a book in 1897, after Hardys last novel Jude the Obscure (1895). The novel tells the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierstons search for the ideal woman, through three generations of a Portland family.A cottage housing what is now part of Portland Museum, on the Isle of Portland, founded by Marie Stopes, a friend of Hardy and his wife, was an inspiration for the book.The cottage acted as the home of Avice, the novels heroine. (wikipedia.org)

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