Cottage at Cresscombe. Source of photograph: Jude The Obscure in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 60.
"The way to the cottage in the village of Cresscombe, suggestive of Letcombe Bassett, is easily found from Wantage by direct road. Following beside the river for a short distance, a picturesque thatched cottage is discovered standing right among the watercress beds. This cottage was the model for the description of the home of Arabella Don, and here Jude first met her." [These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. Jude The Obscure in The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse With Prefaces and Notes in Twenty-One Volumes. Vol. III. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1920.
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