Salisbury (an English corruption of a Celtic-Latin portmanteau meaning "Sarum Fortress") is a city in Wiltshire, England, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder, and Bourne. The city has a population of 41,820, and is approximately 20 miles (30 kilometres) from Southampton and 30 miles (50 km) from Bath. Several notable historic sites are in or close to Salisbury, including Stonehenge.
Salisbury in The Wages of Sin[]
Salisbury was the home of Viola Williams, author of A Voyage to the Island of the Temeculans, and her husband, lawyer Peter Drinkwater, in the 1850s.
Londoners tended to regard Salisburians as uneducated provincials, a notion which Drinkwater attempted to dispel when he was a student in England's capital.
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