
Lost World
England 1933-1936
Dorothy Hartley(Author)
Prospect Books (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-903018-97-2 (ISBN)
Description
During 1933-1936, Dorothy Hartley was commissioned by the Daily Sketch newspaper to write articles describing the English countryside, old English crafts and customs, country foods and country ways (with the odd excursion to Wales, Scotland and Ireland). She did her research in the British Museum (she had by then written several books of social history) and on the ground, travelling around the country on her sturdy bicycle, staying with her subjects, or under a hedgebank if no other choice. These articles were to form her knowledge-bank which she used in several books that came out during the 1930s and beyond (particularly Here's England, 1935), but they have never been seen as they were first written. We offer a selection, with a foreword by Lucy Worsley (who is presenting the BBC TV documentary on Hartley to be transmitted in November) and introduced by the writer Adrian Bailey (who befriended Dorothy Hartley in her later life). The 65 articles are illustrated with some of Hartley's own snapshots which she kept as notes for future reference. The subjects range widely over matters as various as thatching, clog-making, eels, the country chemist, marram grass, sand shoes, crabs, sheep shearing, spring-cleaning, country kitchens, ploughing, weather lore, and elevenses.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Blackawton
United Kingdom
Illustrations
40 b&w illus
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
557 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-903018-97-2 (9781903018972)
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Persons
Dorothy Hartley (1893-1985) writes on old English food and cookery and English country life.