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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 185 X 174 x 110 mm 312 pages |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Our Village 1824 Mary Russell Mitford claimed as her literary ancestors Jane Austen and Gilbert White. But she herself created a new genre, that of the quietist study of village life which Elizabeth Gaskell was to take up twenty-five years later in Cranford. Our Village is made up of short pieces originally published in the little-known Lady 's Magazine. Mitford’s picture of a harmonious society free of the pressures and conflicts of city life exercised a profound influence on the novel, on English culture, and on the way the English saw themselves. Five volumes appeared between 1824 and 1832; we have used the 1824 issue for this facsimile. £35 $55 I have known him take up a huge adder, cut off its head, and then deposit the living and writhing body in his brimless hat, and walk with it coiling and wreathing about his head, like another Medusa, till the sport of the day was over, and he carried it home to secure the fat. |
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