Blooms-End

Blooms-End

Source of photograph: The Return of the Native in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 154.

"Blooms-End, the name given to the home of the Yeobrights, was drawn from a farm-house called Bhompston, which stands in a green field just off the margin of Egdon Heath in the direction of Lower Bockhampton village. In the old oak-beamed room of this house the mummers were assembled to play 'St. George and the Dragon' at the Christmas revels

" [These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].

References

Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native in The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse with Prefaces and Notes in Twenty-One Volumes. Vol. IV. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1920.

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