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Mark Antony Lower : Old Speech and Old Manners in Sussex

Speaking of the passion of his neighbouring Argentinian landowner, Don Gregorio Gandara, for a range of coloured horses, Hudson writes: 'It reminds one of the famous eighteenth-century miller of Newhaven, described by Mark Antony Lower in his book about the strange customs and quaint characters in the Sussex of the old days'. [Hence follows a detailed description of the miller's horses indicating past reading/current re-reading of this work.]

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson      Print: Book

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