In a North Country Village

By Francis, M. E.

Book Id: WPLBN0002952309
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Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	In a North Country Village
Author:	Francis, M. E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Short stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, In a North Country Village
Historic Publication Date:	1897
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago E. Franci, B. M. (1897). In a North Country Village. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Twelve tales of everyday life set in the fictional mid-19th century Lancashire village of Thornleigh (a.k.a. Little Crosby, one of the last remaining recusant Catholic villages in England. M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the family who continue to occupy Crosby Hall to this day. Mary's husband died young and she remained in Little Crosby, where she became a prolific author, taking her husband's Christian name as her pen name. The book is very much an upper class view of the ways of the Lancashire peasantry, but Francis's srong Lancashire women surviving in the face of Hardyesque tragedies and the weaknesses of their menfolk add a feminist touch. (Summary by Phil Benson )

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Fiction, Short stories