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Edwin's House is a Victorian England location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It first appears in the first episode.
Edwin's house is based on Alice's home from the novel Through the Looking-Glass, and the Kingsleigh mansion from the live-action Disney film Alice in Wonderland.
History
Years later, Alice returns once more to Wonderland in search of something she can bring home and prove her father wrong. Concluding his daughter is lost to him forever, Edwin moves past his grief by marrying Sarah and having another child, Millie. One day, while he and Sarah search the woods for a missing Millie, they find her with Alice, who has returned from Wonderland since losing her lover, Cyrus, after he was killed by the Red Queen. Although he still does not believe her, Edwin welcomes Alice into their existing family. Once they return to the house, he tries to set her straight about moving on from the past. That night, Alice wears a dress that Sarah gifted her and she has dinner with everyone. Both Edwin and Sarah try persuading her to think about the prospect of meeting a neighbor's son, but Alice suffers a breakdown, in which she crushes her drinking glass. Unable to forget Cyrus, Alice relives his death in her dreams and awakes shouting his name. Hearing the commotion, Millie comes to her room and inquiries about Cyrus. As Alice is relating her story, Edwin and Sarah arrive to send Millie to bed before reprimanding the elder girl for filling her sister's head with nonsense. Again, they pressure her to try harder to change. The next morning, Alice storms out of the dining hall when her father and stepmother bring in the neighbor's son. Outside the house, she expresses hurt towards Edwin since he doesn't believe Cyrus is real. He, at his wits end, decides Alice must go to a asylum for professional help. On the day of departure, Alice waits outside to be picked up by her psychiatrist while Edwin, inside the house, is comforted by Sarah for his difficult decision. ("Who's Alice")
On his quest to force Alice into making her three wishes, Jafar visits Victorian England and tracks down her father, Edwin, at his home. Presenting himself as Dr. Sheffield, he entices Edwin with his knowledge about Alice's whereabouts, and proves Wonderland is real by showing him the White Rabbit. Jafar then takes Edwin to Wonderland with the hopes of using him against Alice. After Edwin's life is threatened, Alice reconciles with her father and uses a wish to whisk him home. Edwin wakes up in his study just as his wife, Sarah, enters to check up on him. Although he remembers everything that happened in Wonderland, Edwin mistakenly believes it was just a dream. ("Bad Blood")
After Jafar's defeat, Alice and Cyrus return to England, and to Alice's old house. On the day of Alice's wedding to Cyrus, Edwin visits his daughter as she is getting ready. He thanks his daughter for proving to him that forgiveness can be real and is very happy to welcome Cyrus to the family. Alongside Sarah, Millie and various Wonderland guests, they pay witness to the marriage ceremony as the happy couple are finally joined in matrimony. Afterwards, Alice says a heartfelt farewell to Knave and then watches him leave for Wonderland with Anastasia. ("And They Lived...")
Trivia
Set Dressing
- Inside the hallway, there's a painting of a ship,[1] which can also be seen in Granny's Bed and Breakfast in the Once Upon a Time episodes "The Thing You Love Most"[2] and "The Price of Gold."[3] It can also be seen behind the bar at Æsop's Tables in "A Wondrous Place,"[4] and Henry's apartment in "Hyperion Heights,"[5] "A Pirate's Life"[6] and "The Girl in the Tower,"[7] but with a different frame. ("Down the Rabbit Hole," "Who's Alice")
- The drawings View near Hurley, Berks (1835) and Windsor Bridge, Berkshire (1835) by the English topographical and architecture artist William Tombleson are hanging in the house's drawing room.[8] They depict picturesque views of Hurley, Berkshire and the Windsor Bridge. ("Who's Alice," "Bad Blood")
- The same drawings are in the Grendel's house in "Forget Me Not."[9]
- One of the framed pictures in the room where Alice dresses for her wedding[10] is "Brünnhilde slowly and silently leads her horse down the path to the cave," by the famous illustrator Arthur Rackham. It was created for The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie (1910), an illustrated edition of The Rhinegold, the first of the four music dramas which constitute Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. ("And They Lived...")
- Note that the picture is too far away to make out any details. It previously appeared over one of the beds in the Darling family nursery room in the Once Upon a Time episode "Second Star to the Right," though still from far away.[11] It can be seen more clearly on a set photograph by production designer Michael Joy.[12]
Filming Locations
- The outdoor scenes at Edwin's home were filmed at Foxglove Farm,[13] a 120-acre organic farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. ("Down the Rabbit Hole," "Who's Alice")
- The same house doubles as the exterior of the Tremaine estate[14] in the Once Upon a Time episodes "The Price of Gold"[15] and "The Other Shoe,"[16] the exterior of the Tremaine manor in the Once Upon a Time episode "One Little Tear,"[17] as well as the exterior and interior of the home where Isla, Seraphina and her house sisters reside in "Flower Child."[18] A shed located on the farm was also used for the scene where Isla pours a bucket of mud onto Gothel.[19]
- Foxglove Farm has also doubled as locations for other productions:
- The home of Simon Kress in The Outer Limits episode "Sandkings."[20]
- The home of Jared Kane in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Icon" (an episode which features Once Upon a Time guest star Timothy Webber)[21] and an East Germany house in the Stargate SG-1 episode "The Gamekeeper."[22]
- The Salvatore Boarding House in the Pilot episode of The Vampire Diaries (a show which stars Once Upon a Time guest star Sara Canning).[23]
- A Nazi stronghold in the Supernatural episode "Everybody Hates Hitler"[24] and the Fox family home in the Supernatural episode "Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox."[25]
- A Fillory house in The Magicians episode "Have You Brought Me Little Cakes" (an episode which features Once Upon a Time guest stars Charles Mesure, Kacey Rohl and Ryan Robbins).[26]
- An A.R.G.U.S. safe house in the Arrow episode "Bratva."[27]
- Ian Flemming's manor in the Timeless episode "Party at Castle Varlar" (an episode which features Once Upon a Time starring cast member Sean Maguire and guest star Chad Rook).[28]
- The Hollow Sky headquarters in the Beyond episode "Tempus Fugit" (a show which stars Once Upon a Time actors Jeff Pierre and Jonathan Whitesell).[29]
- Thistlehouse during Season Two and Season Three of Riverdale (a show which features Once Upon a Time guest stars Alex Zahara, Barclay Hope, Bruce Blain, Jonathan Whitesell, Julian Haig, Liam Hall, Paul Lazenby, Robin Givens and Tiera Skovbye).[30]
- The Big House at Camp Half-Blood in the 2013 movie Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (a movie which features Once Upon a Time guest stars Robert Maillet and Yvette Nicole Brown).[31]
- A house in Fort Langley doubles as Edwin's home for interior scenes in "Down the Rabbit Hole."[32]
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time in Wonderland | ||||||||||
| "Down the Rabbit Hole": | "Trust Me": | "Forget Me Not": | "The Serpent": | "Heart of Stone": | "Who's Alice": | "Bad Blood": | ||||
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| "Home": | "Nothing to Fear": | "Dirty Little Secrets": | "Heart of the Matter": | "To Catch a Thief": | "And They Lived...": | |||||
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | |||||
