what is the setting of this first novel you mentioned just now?
It s set largely in the fictional town of Casterbridge, based on Dorchester in Dorset.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, and is set largely in the fictional town of Casterbridge, based on Dorchester in Dorset. 
where is altrincham located? Trafford, Greater Manchester, England is it a town or village? A market town any attractional tourist spot? Yes, Royd House, Stamford Park, Dunham Massey Hall, etc. any notable person? Helen Allingham what did its population change to? Its population grew by 275 per cent, higher than the 235 per cent for Trafford and 69 per cent nationally who is this person you mentioned? She was an English watercolourist and illustrator. do you know any of her works? She did 12 illustrations for the 1874 serialisation of Thomas Hardy's novel "Far from the Madding Crowd". can you name some other novels of this writer? "The Mayor of Casterbridge", "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", and "Jude the Obscure". has he written any poem? Yes, he wrote war poems.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge [SEP] Setting and date
The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, and is set largely in the fictional town of Casterbridge, based on Dorchester in Dorset. The author intended Casterbridge to be an imaginative presentation of certain aspects of the town as he remembered it in the "dream" of his childhood. Although the opening sentence of the novel states that the events described took place "before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span" the date of Hardy's own childhood places it rather later – in the mid-to-late 1840s.