1. Far From the Madding Crowd brought this period of literary apprenticeship to a triumphant close.

2. Bathsheba is the name of the central character in the Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding

3. Mother, absolutely illiterate, washed my low-down and madding heart with her broad love like the boundless sea.

4. The film is based on Posy Simmonds' comic strip, a reworking of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.

5. "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" is a song recorded by American rock band Nine Days for the group's fourth studio album, The Madding Crowd (2000)

6. Leaning Abstractedly over a hogshead of tallow, her dark dishevelled tresses waved in opposite directions, and a Muse (as she was) appeared to vulgar eyes, a Fury! 1878, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 12,