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FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 3:09 PM

I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can be
either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark Rise
to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or Jane
Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Martha Spencer
Harriotte B. Smith Library
Camp Lejeune, NC

FROM: "Gena Zelenka" <gzelenka@park-ridge.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 3:19 PM

R. F. Delderfield's books might fit the bill.

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[mailto:Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Spencer Ms Martha
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:58 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: English rural/village life


I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can be
either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark Rise
to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or Jane
Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Martha Spencer
Harriotte B. Smith Library
Camp Lejeune, NC

FROM: "Helene Golden" <hgolden@sols.org>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 3:19 PM

I have always found the novels of Mary E. Pearce very evocative of British rural life. Titles include Jack Mercybright, Apple Tree lean down, The two farms, The land endures, Polsinney Harbor, and others.

>>> Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org 02/27/01 03:58PM >>>
I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can be
either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark Rise
to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or Jane
Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Martha Spencer
Harriotte B. Smith Library
Camp Lejeune, NC

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <kstipek@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 3:30 PM

Many of Anthony Trollope's books have strong rural settings.


Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
(kstipek@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

"Non, merci."--Cyrano de Bergerac


-----Original Message-----
From: Gena Zelenka [mailto:gzelenka@park-ridge.lib.il.us]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:12 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: English rural/village life


R. F. Delderfield's books might fit the bill.

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From: Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org
[mailto:Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Spencer Ms Martha
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:58 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: English rural/village life


I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can be
either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark Rise
to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or Jane
Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Martha Spencer
Harriotte B. Smith Library
Camp Lejeune, NC

FROM: "Community Relations Department" <comrel@orion.org>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 3:30 PM

The books of James Herriot spring to mind, "All Creatures Great and Small"
et al.

Nancy Parry McCluer
Community Relations Department
Springfield-Greene County Library
Springfield, MO comrel@orion.org
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/

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From: "Spencer Ms Martha" <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
To: "Fiction_L" <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: English rural/village life


> I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
> country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can
be
> either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark
Rise
> to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or
Jane
> Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martha Spencer
> Harriotte B. Smith Library
> Camp Lejeune, NC
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Barry Trott <btrott@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 3:42 PM

A couple that come to mind:

Anthony Trollope
R.F. Delderfield (though he might be a bit later than you want)

Barry

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Spencer Ms Martha wrote:

> I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
> country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can be
> either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark Rise
> to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or Jane
> Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martha Spencer
> Harriotte B. Smith Library
> Camp Lejeune, NC
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Suzanne Booker <sbooker@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 5:30 PM

She might like "Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell.

FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 2/27/01, 8:53 PM

In a message dated 2/27/2001 4:00:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org writes:

<<
I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can be
either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark Rise
to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or Jane
Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Martha Spencer
Harriotte B. Smith Library
Camp Lejeune, NC
>>

Delderfield?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Mona Stevenson" <ldstevmo@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/28/01, 8:58 AM

Sarah Woodhouse wrote a wonderful trilogy set in 18th or 19th century rural
England in which the protagonist struggles to maintain her family homestead.
The titles are: A season of mists; The native air; and The peacock's
feather. I believe reviewers compared the series to Jane Austen's novels.

Mona L. D. Stevenson
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library
Warren, OH
1-330-399-8807, ext. 123
ldstevmo@oplin.lib.oh.us <mailto:ldstevmo@oplin.lib.oh.us>

FROM: Tracey Callison <Callison@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/28/01, 9:09 AM

> From: "Spencer Ms Martha" <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
>
> I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
> country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th
> century. These can be

This may have been mentioned already, but I would also recommend
the Barsetshire series by Angela Thirkell (who lived from 1890-1961).
They are very slice-of-life, set in an imaginary small English
country village and have a very good (and sometimes sly) sense
of humor that can be missing from some of today's rather pallid
books set in that era.

Tracey Callison

FROM: "Crew Family" <rcrewdcrew@home.com>
REC'D: 2/28/01, 11:35 AM

This is really quite a difficult one, I think, as there really isn't
anything else quite like "Cider With Rosie" and "Lark Rise". Is the patron
looking for non-fiction - memories of village life (as these two books are),
or would fiction do?
One suggestion I have, in addition to those mentioned, is Bruce Chatwin's
"On the Black Hill" which follows the lives of twin brothers who live in the
Welsh / English borderlands, and has that "memorial" feel to it.

If she definitely wants the "village life as it really was" type of thing,
perhaps she might enjoy those hugely entertaining diaries kept by various
local clergy - such as Francis Kilvert's Diary (which he kept in the 1870s),
or, a little earlier, James Woodforde's "Diary of a Country Parson", which
covers the late 1700s, early 1800s. Both are a lot of fun to read.

Di.


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From: Spencer Ms Martha <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: English rural/village life


> I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
> country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can
be
> either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark
Rise
> to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or
Jane
> Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martha Spencer
> Harriotte B. Smith Library
> Camp Lejeune, NC
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 2/28/01, 1:21 PM

Thank you all for your great and varied suggestions. These should keep my
patron busy for a while.

Martha Spencer

FROM: bplcp@pacbell.net
REC'D: 2/28/01, 3:14 PM

Angela Thirkell.

> I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
> country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can be
> either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark Rise
> to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or Jane
> Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martha Spencer
> Harriotte B. Smith Library
> Camp Lejeune, NC
>


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FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/2/01, 10:45 AM

Anthony Trollope's six volumes of Barsetshire Chronicles, which were
continued in a very LONG series by Angela Thirkell, might suit your patron.
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FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 6/6/01, 10:01 AM

Hello,

I was able to get the two parsons' diaries on interlibrary loan and if I'd
had time to really read them, think these two would have been right up my
alley. Just bought a book call Akenfield which is an oral history of a
village in the Cotswolds (I think). I'm going on a cross-country flight next
week and will take it with me to read then.

Martha

-----Original Message-----
From: Crew Family [mailto:rcrewdcrew@home.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:20 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: English rural/village life


This is really quite a difficult one, I think, as there really isn't
anything else quite like "Cider With Rosie" and "Lark Rise". Is the patron
looking for non-fiction - memories of village life (as these two books are),
or would fiction do?
One suggestion I have, in addition to those mentioned, is Bruce Chatwin's
"On the Black Hill" which follows the lives of twin brothers who live in the
Welsh / English borderlands, and has that "memorial" feel to it.

If she definitely wants the "village life as it really was" type of thing,
perhaps she might enjoy those hugely entertaining diaries kept by various
local clergy - such as Francis Kilvert's Diary (which he kept in the 1870s),
or, a little earlier, James Woodforde's "Diary of a Country Parson", which
covers the late 1700s, early 1800s. Both are a lot of fun to read.

Di.


----- Original Message -----
From: Spencer Ms Martha <Martha.Spencer@usmc-mccs.org>
To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: English rural/village life


> I have a patron looking for titles and authors of works about English
> country/village life preferably nineteenth/early 20th century. These can
be
> either fiction or nonfiction. She is looking for books similar to Lark
Rise
> to Candleford and Cider with Rosie,but not looking for Thomas Hardy or
Jane
> Austen and especially not Miss Read. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martha Spencer
> Harriotte B. Smith Library
> Camp Lejeune, NC
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


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