Orley Farm (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- First Published: 1861
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Justice, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Trials, England or English people, Farms, farmers, or farming, Wills, Corruption, Attorneys
- Locales: England
Places Discussed
Orley Farm. Country residence not far from London. The title site is actually two plots of land: the Old Farm, three hundred acres that have been let to an area farmer, and the eponymous farmhouse itself, with its adjoining two hundred acres. The house is where Sir Joseph Mason lived with his second wife, Lady Mason; the entire property was supposedly bequeathed to his youngest child, Lucius Mason.
At the time of the novel, Orley Farm consists of three buildings, “commodious, irregular, picturesque, and straggling.” This picturesqueness does not...
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