By Hardy, Thomas; Ireland, Ken
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8), are eclipsed by Stephen’s catching the sound of a male voice and Elfride’s laugh on the evening of their planned rendezvous (ch. 24). Adjacency operates once more when, in the very next chapter, a week later, he recognizes the voices and faces of Knight and Elfride in the garden pavilion (ch. 25), before encountering the vengeful Mrs Jedway, who has intentionally been spying on the couple. 5), where three observers watch the steward burying his murdered wife, but both episodes graphically convey the notion of simultaneity.
Only in retrospect is it clear that this occurs, ironically enough, on the very same evening as Fanny’s death at the Casterbridge workhouse: testimony, once again, to Hardy’s careful timekeeping, and to the need, on the reader’s part, for constant awareness of narrative temporality. As the second of Hardy’s novels to be serialized,12 FFMC appeared in twelve parts in the Cornhill Magazine between January and December 1874, and was grouped in the most important category of ‘Novels of Character and Environment’ in the General Preface to the Wessex Edition of 1912.
New for Hardy, are reader expectations of regular cliff-hangers at instalment-ends; the commercial pressures of an unfamiliar format, that of serialization; as well as the emotional tensions of his personal involvement with Emma, all of which result in organizational problems. The need to create ‘artificial’ units of twenty pages, can run counter, understandably, to the ‘natural’ Under the Greenwood Tree and A Pair of Blue Eyes 25 length of a writer’s narrative rhythm, such that truncation or disjunction of the original material results.
