Our village
By: Mary Russell Mitford ; with an introduction by Margaret Lane and wood engravings by Joan Hassall
Series: Oxford paperbacks
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press; Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780192813343
Subjects: Social life and customs; Mœurs et coutumes; Manners and customs
Description: The little village of Three Mile Cross in Berkshire was Mary Russell Mitford's home for thirty years. She has drawn on her observations of the locality for many of her short essays, the best of which appear in this book.
Notes: Originally published by George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1947.
Table of contents: title: Our Village; title: Frost and Thaw; title: The First Primrose; title: Violeting; title: The Cowslip-Ball; title: The Hard Summer; title: Nutting; title: The Visit; title: The Copse; title: The Wood; title: The Dell; title: The Shaw; title: Nannah Bint; title: The Fall of the Leaf; title: A Country Cricket Match; title: A Village Beau; title: A Walk Through the Village; title: Jack Hatch; title: Doctor Tubb; title: The Old Gipsy; title: The Young Gipsy; title: Wheat-Hoeing-A Morning Ramble; title: Whitsun-Eve; title: Our Maying; title: The Mole-Catcher; title: Matthew Shore; title: The Lost Keys, or a Day of Distress; title: Old Master Green; title: The Haymakers; title: Farewell to Our Village.