Bramhurst Court. Source of photograph: Tess of the D'Urbervilles in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 494.
The unoccupied manor-house in the New Forest, Hampshire, known as Bramhurst Court, in which Tess and Angel Clare take refuge after the murder of Alec D'Urberville, seems to have been drawn from Moyle's Court, situated in the environs of Ringwood. In the days of [Judge] Jeffreys [just after the Monmouth Rebellion of 1680] this house was the residence of Dame Alice Lisle, who was taken from it to her execution at Winchester. The house is said to be still haunted by her spirit
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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