John Cowper Powys's novel Maiden Castle (1936) is set in Dorchester and Powys intended it to be "a Rival of the Mayor of Casterbridge.[69] Powys had lived in Dorchester as a child, between May 1880 and Christmas 1885, when his father was a curate there.[70] Then, after returning from America in June 1934, he had lived at 38 High East Street, Dorchester, from October 1934 until July 1935, when he moved to Wales.[71] The building is commemorated with a plaque erected by the Dorchester Heritage Committee, but giving the date of his residence as 1936.[72]