East Butterleigh House

East Butterleigh House is a remote, white-painted Victorian farmhouse in a Devon hamlet; the de la Pastures moved here in around 1895 and lived here at least part of the time until around 1900. Violet Powell suggests that they spent their summers here (The Life of a Provincial Lady, p4) and Betty de la Pasture’s professional and social life certainly indicates that they would have spent part of the year in London. In 1897 alone, she published a novel (Deborah of Tod’s, set partly in Devon), perf...