
Kilvert's Diary
Francis Kilvert(Author)
William Plomer(Editor)
Vintage Classics (Publisher)
Published on 13. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-09-952875-3 (ISBN)
Description
A SELECTION EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM PLOMER
Francis Kilvert was an country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries: gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons. A worthy heir to Pepys and Dorothy Wordsworth, Kilvert is an irresistible companion.
Francis Kilvert was an country clergyman who lived from 1840 to 1879, and these are his diaries: gossipy, sweet-natured, generous, curious, and full of an abiding wonder and delight in the natural world and the beauties of the changing seasons. A worthy heir to Pepys and Dorothy Wordsworth, Kilvert is an irresistible companion.
Reviews / Votes
"One of the most enchanting portraits of English rural life ever written...Kilvert's lyrical nature writing is recognised for its Wordsworthian sensibility" -- Mark Bostridge * Guardian * "One of the best books in English" * Sunday Times * "The best picture of quiet vicarage life in Victorian England that has yet been given to us" -- John BetjemanMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
2
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
255 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-952875-3 (9780099528753)
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Persons
Robert Francis Kilvert was born at Hardenhuish, near Chippenham, in Wiltshire on 3 December 1840. He was the second child of the rector of the parish, the Rev. Robert Kilvert, and had one brother and four sisters. Francis Kilvert spent his early years at Hardenhuish, was educated privately, went in due course to Wadham College, Oxford, and entered the Church. He became vicar of Bredwardine in Herefordshire in 1877. In 1879 he married Elizabeth Rowland, whom he had met during a visit to Paris. But after little more than a month of marriage, Kilvert died suddenly of peritonitis, aged only thirty-nine.