Manor-House of the Drenghards (Wolfeton House). 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.
Manor-House of the Drenghards is supposed to 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"
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. "The Wessex Novels II.-- Romances and Fantasies: The Well-Beloved & A Group of Noble Dames. Vol. XIII of The Anniversary Edition. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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