First printed in the Standard, these sketches portray the English countryside as the agricultural depression of the 1870s bit. Jefferies takes the reader to the farmers’ parliament at the market inn, to a tenant leaving his farm, a man of progress with his machines, squires, parsons, bankers and auctioneers, and the labourer Hodge on whom they all depend.
Sharp, unsentimental observation of a vanishing rural world from one of England’s finest country writers. Download the free EPUB.