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Our Village
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A collection of prose sketches depicting rural English village life, its inhabitants, landscapes, and changing seasons, drawn from the author's observations of the early nineteenth-century countryside. It suits readers interested in country life, nature writing, and English literature of the period.
Mary Russell Mitford
Mary Russell Mitford was an English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist. She was born in New Alresford in Hampshire, England. She is best known for Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters based upon her life in Three Mile Cross near Reading in Berkshire.
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