The Old Manor-House, Knapwater. Source of photograph: Desperate Remedies in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 114.
The Old Manor-House (in reality, the Old Manor-House, Kingston Park), an old Tudor building [1592] in Kingston Park, stands to us for the building where [Aeneas] Manston lived. The old building belonged originally to the Grey family, from whom it passed with the estates to the Pitts by the marriage of George Pitt to Laura, only child and heiress of Audley.
The present owners of the house, Andrew and Mulu Thomson, remind us of Laura through designating one of the three guest-rooms "The Laura Pitt Room."
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. Desperate Remedies. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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