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Our Village, Volume 1

Our Village, Volume 1

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Number of Chapters: 32

Length: 09 hours and 54 minutes

Language: English

This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about 18 months, then later, Volume 2 chronicles the changes when Miss Mitford returns to the village some 2 years later. The book's subtitle is “sketches of rural character and scenery”... and this perfectly describes its contents. People and nature are minutely observed and the language reflects Miss Mitford's exquisite eye for detail and love of the changing seasons and the impact they have on the flora and fauna around her. The village characters are described mainly fondly, but not without the occasional wry reference to their faults! In her introduction to a later edition, Anne Thackeray Ritchie quotes from Miss Mitford's reply to William Elford when asked if her characters and descriptions are true......."Yes, as true as is well possible....you, as a great landscape painter know that in painting a favourite scene you do a little embellish and can't help it; you avail yourself of happy accidents of atmosphere; if anything be ugly you strike it out, or if anything be wanting, you put it in. But still the picture is a likeness.” But even if seen through rose-coloured lenses, these gentle little sketches conjure up a time and place long gone and transport us for a while to another, simpler world. ( Anne Fletcher)

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Preface (Anne Fletcher)
Our Village (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 1, Frost and Thaw (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 2, The First Primrose (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 3 Violeting (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 4 The Cowslip- Ball (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Ptr 5 The Hard Summer (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 6 Nutting (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country PT 7 The Visit (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 8 The Copse (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 9 The Wood (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 10 The Dell (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 11 The Old House at Aberleigh (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 12 The Shaw (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt13 Hannah Bint (Anne Fletcher)
Walks in the Country Pt 14 The Fall of The Leaf (Anne Fletcher)
Hannah (Anne Fletcher)
Modern Antiques (Anne Fletcher)
A Great Farm House (Anne Fletcher)
Lucy (Anne Fletcher)
Bramley Maying (Anne Fletcher)
Cousin Mary (Anne Fletcher)
The Talking Lady (Anne Fletcher)
Ellen (Anne Fletcher)
A Country Cricket Match (Anne Fletcher)
Tom Cordery (Anne Fletcher)
An Old Bachelor (Anne Fletcher)
A Village Beau (Anne Fletcher)
The Talking Gentleman (Anne Fletcher)
Mrs Mosse (Anne Fletcher)
Aunt Martha (Anne Fletcher)
A Parting Glance At Our Village (Anne Fletcher)
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