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Haddon Hall
Haddon Hall
Credit: Herbert Railton; restored by Adam Cuerden
Front page of The Illustrated London News depicting the elopement scene from Haddon Hall, an 1892 opera by Arthur Sullivan and Sydney Grundy. The opera dramatises the legend of Dorothy Vernon's elopement with John Manners in 1563. The legend came to prominence in the 19th century and was the subject of numerous plays and novels.
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