Mixen Lane, Casterbridge. Source of photograph: The Mayor of Casterbridge in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 292.
Mixen Lane was torn down in the urban renewal of 1912. "Mixen Lane was the Adullam of all the surrounding villages. It was the hiding-place of those who were in distress, and in debt, and trouble of every kind." It was inside the inn called Peter's Finger which "was the church of Mixen Lane' [an allusion to the Church of St. Peter on Cornhill, beside the Corn Exchange] that "the Skimmity ride" was planned by Jopp, the Furmity Woman, Mother Cuxsom and Nance Mockridge.
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Story of a Man of Character. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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