Our Village (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Russell Mitford
- Type of Work: Tales and sketches
- Type of Plot: Village chronicle
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Rural England
- Principal Characters: Miss Mitford, Lizzy, Mayflower
- Genres: Short fiction, Regional fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Girls, Dogs, Nature, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, England or English people
- Locales: England
The Story:
To Miss Mitford, life in a rural English village was to be desired above any other. To know intimately one’s neighbors and to watch them live out their daily lives were matters of absorbing interest to her. Each house, whether fine mansion or humble cottage, had its own story; and the inhabitants, elegant or simple, provided a drama as moving as any found on the stage.
There was the retired public official who constantly arranged town festivals because his leisure hung so heavily on his hands; the shoemaker whose toil from morning until night contrasted...
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