Alderworth Cottage. 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. 246.
"Alderworth, the fictitious name of the cottage which Clym rented after his marriage to Eustacia, was situated 'about two miles beyond the village of East Egdon'. East Egdon represents Affpuddle, a village near Dorchester. It was at the church in this village that Clym and Eustacia were married.
"The cottage was in a lonely situation, for 'it was almost as lonely as that of Eustacia's grandfather, but the fact that it stood near a heath was disguised by a belt of firs which almost enclosed the premises'" [These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
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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