Van Tassel farm

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Van Tassel farm is the prosperous rural estate in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” where Katrina Van Tassel lives and much of the story’s social life unfolds.

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Van Tassel mansion 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional farm
literary location
rural estate
appearsIn The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
associatedCharacter Baltus Van Tassel
Brom Bones
Ichabod Crane
Katrina Van Tassel
contrastsWith Ichabod Crane’s poverty
countryInFiction United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Washington Irving
describedAs prosperous
rural
eventLocation Ichabod Crane’s last appearance in Sleepy Hollow
Katrina Van Tassel’s party
firstPublicationOfWork 1820
genreOfWork American short story
Gothic fiction
hasFunctionInPlot courtship setting for Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel
site of party and dance
social gathering place
languageOfWork English
locatedInWork Sleepy Hollow
medium short story
narrativeRole symbol of wealth and comfort
ownedBy Baltus Van Tassel
partOf the setting of Sleepy Hollow
resident Baltus Van Tassel
Katrina Van Tassel
settingPeriod post-Revolutionary War era
stateInFiction New York

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Katrina Van Tassel householdSetting Van Tassel farm
Katrina Van Tassel householdSetting Van Tassel farm
this entity surface form: Van Tassel mansion