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The Thief of Virtue
At Hartland Farm above Postbridge on the East Dart, Philip Ouldsbroom, a farmer of forty just come into his land, weds the young moor-woman Unity Crymes. The story follows the Ouldsbroom family through the years at the very heart of the moor.
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Number 10 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The atmosphere of Dartmoor deserves particular notice ; it is at all times humid. The rain, which frequently falls, almost without intermission, for many weeks together, is generally small; and resembles more a Scotch mist than a shower.”
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