In Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, which city did he call Christminster?
Jude the Obscure of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and Arabella leaves Jude and later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage.
Jude the Obscure of the ITV drama "Broadchurch" are drawn from the life and works of Thomas Hardy, and one character says in a police interview that he had read the book "Jude the Obscure". Michael Ian Black has created a podcast called "Obscure", where he reads and comments on the book Jude the Obscure. It began on 8 June 2018. Jude the Obscure Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a