In another of this author's novels, the title character leaves after Richard Newson returns to claim his daughter, Elizabeth-Jane.
This author wrote "we thought it was the Judgment day" during "that night your great guns, unawares, shook all our coffins as we lay" in his poem "Channel Firing." Boldwood shoots and kills Sergeant Troy in this man's novel about Bathsheba Everdene, set in (*) Wessex. In another of this author's novels, the title character leaves after Richard Newson returns to claim his daughter, Elizabeth-Jane. For 10 points, what author of Far From the Madding Crowd wrote about Michael Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge?
This author wrote "we thought it was the Judgment day" during "that night your great guns, unawares, shook all our coffins as we lay" in his poem "Channel Firing."
Thomas {Hardy}