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Mary and William Howitt : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been wending this winter. We had read them before, and many of the stories were as familiar to us as household words; but they have been read this time principally that William might trace out their localities, and a great additional charm has his knowledge of your part of the country given them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary and William Howitt     Print: Book

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