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Hodge and his Masters
2 Volume Set

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

Author: Richard Jefferies

Date Published: November 2011
availability: In stock
format: Multiple copy pack
isbn: 9781108035842

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Richard Jefferies (1848–87) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which he had been born, which, when brought together in book form, brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to be read and admired after his early death. This two-volume work, first published in 1880, contains a collection of essays first published in The Standard. Jefferies describes the daily life and circumstances of Victorian English farmers, labourers and their wives without sentimentality, illustrating daily hardships as well as idyllic pastimes, and providing an accurate and thus valuable description of a now vanished way of life.

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Product details
- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108035842
- length: 694 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 140 x 40 mm
- weight: 0.93kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. The farmers' parliament
2. Leaving his farm
3. A man of progress
4. Going downhill
5. The borrower and the gambler
6. An agricultural genius - old style
7. The gig and the four-in-hand. A bicycle farmer
8. Haymaking. 'The Juke's country'
9. The fine lady farmer. Country girls
10. Mademoiselle, the governess
11. Fleeceborough. A 'despot'
12. The squire's 'round robin'
13. An ambitious squire
14. The parson's wife
15. A modern country curate. Volume 2:
1. The solicitor
2. 'County Court day'
3. The bank. The old newspaper
4. The village factory. Village visitors. Willow-work
5. Hodge's fields
6. A winter's morning
7. The labourer's children. Cottage girls
8. The low 'public'. Idlers
9. The cottage charter. Four-acre farmers
10. Landlords' difficulties. The labourer as a power. Modern clergy
11. A wheat country
12. Grass countries
13. Hodge's last masters. Conclusion.
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