Author: Ashby, M. K.:
Title: Joseph Ashby of Tysoe 1859 -1919. A Study of English Village Life.
Description: Cambridge At The University Press, 1961 Hard cover blue cloth bds, black title block to spine, VG, in dust jacket, small tape marks on flaps and outer cover otherwise Good, bk leans very slightly, label residue to front pastedown (not a lib. bk), b/w frontis., pp303, contents clean and tight, small brown stain to btm pge edge block. A picture of English country life, the author writes of her self-educated father, 'a man of rare character' and her own childhood.

Keywords: Joseph Ashby Tysoe English rural life self educated J.P. farmer farming nineteenth century Victorian social history childhood Hornton Quarries Methodists emigration village education family war


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