Anglebury. Source of photograph: The Hand of Ethelberta in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 6.
Anglebury, where the action in the story commences, is approximately Wareham, and here we are introduced to that "old and well-appointed Inn" the "Red Lion," a building of imposing appearance standing at the cross-roads in the centre of town
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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