Kilvert's Diary William Plomer

Name: Kilvert's Diary By William Plomer
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A SELECTION EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM PLOMERFrancis Kilvert was an country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries: gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons.

Kilvert's Diary Summary

Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer

A SELECTION EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM PLOMER Francis Kilvert was an country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries: gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons. A worthy heir to Pepys and Dorothy Wordsworth, Kilvert is an irresistible companion.

Kilvert's Diary Reviews

One of the most enchanting portraits of English rural life ever written...Kilvert's lyrical nature writing is recognised for its Wordsworthian sensibility -- Mark Bostridge * Guardian *
One of the best books in English * Sunday Times *
The best picture of quiet vicarage life in Victorian England that has yet been given to us -- John Betjeman

About William Plomer

Robert Francis Kilvert was born at Hardenhuish, near Chippenham, in Wiltshire on 3 December 1840. He was the second child of the rector of the parish, the Rev. Robert Kilvert, and had one brother and four sisters. Francis Kilvert spent his early years at Hardenhuish, was educated privately, went in due course to Wadham College, Oxford, and entered the Church. He became vicar of Bredwardine in Herefordshire in 1877. In 1879 he married Elizabeth Rowland, whom he had met during a visit to Paris. But after little more than a month of marriage, Kilvert died suddenly of peritonitis, aged only thirty-nine.

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GOR004586648

ISBN 13

9780099528753

ISBN 10

0099528754

Title

Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer

Author

William Plomer

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20121213

Number of pages

368

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