Editing Two on a Tower (section)

==Background==
In the 1895 preface Hardy wrote, "The scene of the action was suggested by two real spots in the part of the country specified, each of which has a column standing upon it. Certain surrounding peculiarities have been imported into the narrative from both sites." [[Wimborne]] was the location of the "little town" of "Warborne",<ref>T. Hardy, Two on a Tower (London: Penguin, 2012; orig. edn 1882), p.276</ref> and [[Charborough House]] was the location of the "Welland House" in ''Two on a Tower''.<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/images/maps/windle.htm Letter from Hardy to Bertram Windle, transcribed by Birgit Plietzsch, from CL, vol 2, pp 131–133] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102192023/http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/images/maps/windle.htm |date=2 January 2007 }}</ref>

Hardy's intention, in his own words, was to "set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe".<ref>[From Hardy's 1895 preface to the book]</ref>