The house from the south-east
Ingatestone Hall, Essex.
The house's main claim to (literary) fame is that its early 18th-century owner Robert, the 7th Lord Petre, caused a major family feud when he flirtatiously snipped a lock of hair from the head of his cousin, Arabella Fermor, at Hampton Court Palace, an incident that directly inspired Alexander Pope's mock-heroic poem "The Rape of the Lock".
Ingatestone Hall also features (as "Audley Court") in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational 1862 novel "Lady Audley's Secret".
The house from the south-east
Ingatestone Hall, Essex.
The house's main claim to (literary) fame is that its early 18th-century owner Robert, the 7th Lord Petre, caused a major family feud when he flirtatiously snipped a lock of hair from the head of his cousin, Arabella Fermor, at Hampton Court Palace, an incident that directly inspired Alexander Pope's mock-heroic poem "The Rape of the Lock".
Ingatestone Hall also features (as "Audley Court") in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational 1862 novel "Lady Audley's Secret".