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Studies Hardy's legal research and friendships, his work as a Dorchester magistrate, actual Victorian law cases from which he drew novel material, nineteenth-century legal reform, the legal "machinery" of the novels, and Hardy's position as an advocate for the reform of marriage laws.William A. Davis is the author of 'Thomas Hardy And The Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life and Fiction', published 2002 under ISBN 9780874137989 and ISBN 0874137985.
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