Middleton Abbey
Source of photograph: The Woodlanders in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing page 242.
"Middleton Abbey, the temporary residence of Mrs. Charmond, had for its model the abbey at Milton Abbas, which gives the place part of its name. The abbey is an ancient building of Saxon foundation, dating back to the fourteenth century. Milton Abbas is an interesting village, with all the houses on both sides of the long, wide street almost exactly similar in size and design, all roofed with thatch. Close beside the abbey-church stands the house imagined as the place of Mrs. Charmond's sojourn" [These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. The Woodlanders in The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse with Prefaces and Notes in Twenty-One Volumes. Vol. VI. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1920.
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