Buy this book on-line FUSSELL,G(eorge) E(dwin) + K(athleen) R(osemary): : THE ENGLISH COUNTRYWOMAN: Her Life in Farmhouse and Field from Tudor times to the Victorian ageLONDON.ORBIS,1981. ISBN 0856133364.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published,Andrew Melrose Ltd.,1953.] FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - absence of publisher price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour,pictorial illustrated upper wrap (detail from painting 'Haymaking' by George Stubbs),publisher advert to rear wrap with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/ backstrip minimally sunned/faded.Top edge slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - fore-edges less so and therefore much brighter and cleaner,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean publisher's original green cloth boards with bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip, headband and immaculate,plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,v-xvipp+17-221pp [paginated] includes contents+illustrations lists/tables,an introduction,7 chapters,64pp contemporary period b/w illus in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp48/9,pp96/7,pp128/9 and pp176/7 respectively,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces, appendix: authorities used and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w vignetted title-page and 2pp blanks to rear.
The re-issued classic by the authors of 'The English Countryman' chronicles day-to-day life for the woman of an English manor,farmhouse or cottage.It dwells on women's traditional role in the country life of five centuries,describing their work in the field,dairy,still-room and kitchen.Clothes,food and cooking,the management of servants,child-rearing,home furnishing,social customs and attitudes to marriage are all given the same sharp and well researched scrutiny.
Spiced with a mass of entertaining details - from recipes for a Suffolk pudding to items of a mid-Victorian country walking costume - the whole story of the English countrywoman and her family is told amusingly and informatively. George Edwin Fussell is one of Britain's most distinguished agricultural historians and author of innumerable books and articles on the subject.
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