"To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."
Opening line.
#OTD in 1872.
Thomas Hardy's second novel (and the first set in Wessex), Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, is published in London (as "by the author of Desperate Remedies").
A movie (1929) was made based on this book, directed by Harry Lachman and starring Marguerite Allan, Nigel Barrie and Wilfred Shine.