Wolfeton House
Dorcester, Dorset
[Hardy's Manor-House of the Drenghards]
Scanned image and text 2002 by Philip V. Allingham
Wolfeton House
Dorcester, Dorset
[Hardy's Manor-House of the Drenghards]
Scanned image and text 2002 by Philip V. Allingham
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According to the editors, many of whose remarks seem based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea,
Manor-House of the Drenghards is supposed to be Wolfeton House, about a mile from Dorchester, standing a little back from the high road on the road to Yeovil. The house is conspicuously prominent from the Great Western Railway line soon after the train emerges from Pondbury Tunnel. As described at the opening of the story, "The Lady Penelope," it is "an ivied manor-house, flanked by battlemented towers, and more than usually distinguished by the size of its many mullioned windows."
Source of photograph: A Group of Noble Dames in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Frontispiece.
Hardy, Thomas. "The Wessex Novels II. Romances and Fantasies: The Well-Beloved & A Group of Noble Dames. "Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels." Vol 13. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1920. This edition derives in part from previous editions and the photographs of 1912.
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