when was it first published?
1886
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. 
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. 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.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge [SEP] Introduction
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth. It was first published as a weekly serialisation from January 1886. The novel is considered to be one of Hardy's masterpieces, although it has been criticised for incorporating too many incidents: a consequence of the author trying to include something in every weekly published instalment.