Wessex Tales and "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion"—from "Life's Little Ironies" to "Wessex Tales". Six of the short stories were adapted as television dramas by the BBC as the anthology series called "Wessex Tales": Wessex Tales Wessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. In the various short stories, Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth-century marriage and its inherent restrictions, the use of grammar as a diluted form of thought, the disparities created by the role of class status in
Wessex Football League Wessex Football League The Wessex Football League is an English association football league formed in 1986, with its premier division currently at the fifth step of the National League System, or the ninth tier of the overall English football league system. The participating clubs are mainly based in Hampshire, but the league also encompasses clubs from adjoining counties such as Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and the Isle of Wight. Under the terms of a sponsorship contract, the league is officially known as the Sydenhams League. In 2004, it absorbed most of the clubs from its feeder league, the Hampshire League, which