Kilvert's Cornish Diary
Author | : Robert Francis Kilvert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
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Author | : Robert Francis Kilvert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
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Author | : Robert Francis Kilvert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
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Author | : John Toman |
Publisher | : Lutterworth Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0718841778 |
Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringing, and as a result his diaries can be seen as a response to these changes and not, as previous Kilvert scholarship suggests, as a simple record of country life. Toman's new work goes beyond the biographical and social realities of Kilvert's family by comparing them to almost twenty other middle-class families in order to show common factors in the familial experience of a rapidly changing society. At the heart of this re-evaluation of Kilvert's life and times is the theme of Wonder, various aspects of which are explored throughout. Away from the rapidly growing urban centres the effects of industrialisation are seen in a surprisingly positive light by Francis Kilvert, a fervent Christian coming to terms with the encroachments that science, scepticism and secularism were making upon religious faith and yet seeing all around him a 'world of wonders'.
Author | : William Plomer |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1447499395 |
SINCE its first appearance in three volumes (1938–40) Kilvert’s Diary has become established as a minor classic. Its recognized place among the very best of English diaries has been gained by special qualities. It is the work of a man with a watchful eye and a clear style: Kilvert has the uncommon gift of making one see vividly what he describes. His detailed picture of life in the English countryside in mid-Victorian times is unmatched, and every sentence he writes helps to build up a self-portrait so personal and intimate that one gets to know him like a friend. Kilvert reveals himself as an essentially modest, innocent, truthful and unworldly young man, sociable, and with a strong love of life and of landscape, with a sense of drama and a good vein of humour. His life was strongly affected by two things–his susceptibility to the beauty of young women and girls, and his lack of money and of what used to be called prospects. As a faithful country clergyman, he moved with equal ease among people of both the landowning and labouring classes, and by both was welcomed equally. His good nature and good manners, his vitality, his love of children, and his practical sympathy with the unfortunate, won him much affection. If he did not question the values of his own class, he was never indifferent to sufferings which they permitted, and did what he could, with his evidently magnetic presence and voice, to lessen those sufferings. He knew that not far from the convivial and copious dinners and picnics, the lively croquet and archery parties, could be found loneliness, squalor, and hunger, and sometimes murders and suicides.
Author | : Robert Francis Kilvert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Toman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Kilvert's Diary and Landscape" is an effort to tell the story of Francis Kilvert's life as well as to picture rural society, which Victorians were prone to idealize. Toman offers a complete revaluation of the man and his work.
Author | : Kilvert Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
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Author | : Kilvert's diary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Clergy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : F. KILVERT |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2020-02-16 |
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"The Diary, which paints a unique picture of country life in mid-Victorian times, has come to be recognised as a minor classic; its author has been compared to Dorothy Wordsworth, whom he admired, and even Pepys." - William Plomer "The best picture of quiet vicarage life in Victorian England that has yet been given us." - John Betjeman The diaries of Robert Francis Kilvert (1840-1879), kept from 1870 to 1879, are a unique treasury celebrating the Welsh and English countryside and the variety of characters inhabiting it, seen through the perspective of a sensitive, lyrical and witty young clergyman. This newly edited selection, based on the work of his editor William Plomer, offers all the variety of Kilvert's delightful prose, and includes his descriptions of travels to places such as Bath, Bristol, Cornwall, Liverpool, London and Worcester and his encounters with interesting people of his era, whether known only in their community or nationwide.
Author | : Deirdre Dare |
Publisher | : Hypatia Publications |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781872229584 |
The biography of Victorian botanist, social historian, and educator, Charles Alexander Johns (1811-1874), best known for the classic guide Flowers of the Field.