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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION THE history of this novel (whose birth in its present shape has been much retarded by the necessities of periodical publication) is briefly as follows. The scheme was jotted down in 1890, from notes made in 1887 and onwards, some of the circumstances being suggested by the death of a woman in the former year. The scenes were revisited in October 1892; the narrative was written in outline in 1892 and the spring of 1893, and at full length, as it now appears, from August 1893 onwards into the next year ; the whole, with the exception of a few chapters, being in the hands of the publisher by the end of 1894. It was begun as a serial story in <1Harper's Magazine>1 at the end of November 1894, and was continued in monthly parts. But, as in the case of <1Tess of the d' Urbervilles,>1 the magazine version was for various reasons an abridged and modified one, the present edition being the first in which the whole appears as originally written. And in the difficulty . . .
