1893 Village Life in Southern England in Early 1800's Cricket Garden Farm Dogs

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Our VillageBy Mary Russell MitfordWith An IntroductionBy Anne Thackeray RitchieAnd 100 IllustrationsBy Hugh ThomsonPublished By MacMillan And Co.London ( England )1893Hardcover.Decorated Cloth Binding.Elaborate Floral Binding Decoration.All Page Edges Gilt.Color-coated Endpapers.5" x 7.25"(60) + 256 Pages.124 Years OldOur Village is a collection of about 100 literary sketches of rural life,written by Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855), and originally published during the 1820's and 1830's.The full title is: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery .The vivid series was based upon life in Three Mile Cross , a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, where she lived ( south-east of Reading in Berkshire , England ).Mitford's description of village cricket in Our Village has been called " the first major prose on the game ".Includes Hunting Dogs , etc., etc.Miss Mitford's own short preface to the 1835 edition states:" The following pages contain an attempt to delineate country scenery and country manners, as they exist in a small village in the south of England. The writer may at least claim the merit of a hearty love of her subject, and of that local and personal familiarity, which only a long residence in one neighbourhood could have enabled her to attain. Her descriptions have always been written on the spot, and at the moment, read more
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