Talk:Bott, Thomas - Derbyshire's Most Ungentlemanly Gentleman

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So instead of the Mayor of Casterbridge, we could have had the Mayor of Chesterfield. Fascinating!

Peter Seddon replies: Absolutely! And for those that don't follow the connection, 'The Mayor of Casterbridge' was an 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy, in which a young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard, when fuelled by alcohol, auctions off his wife and baby daughter to a sailor for 5 guineas. Full of remorse the next day he vows to embark on a life of sobriety, and 18 years later, having become the respectable Mayor of Casterbridge, fate decrees that he again meets his wife and daughter. Then the complications really begin.......

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