Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings (Registro nro. 117216)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
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| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hill, Constance, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1844?-1929 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-07-13 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Fiona Holmes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings" by Constance Hill is a literary biography written in the early 20th century. It presents a warm, anecdote-rich portrait of the author of Our Village, emphasizing her rural imagination, theatrical ambitions, friendships, and brilliant letters. Drawing on Mitford’s own recollections and contemporary voices, it maps the places, people, and social worlds—English villages, Reading, Lyme Regis, and circles of French émigrés—that shaped her life and writing. The opening of the book offers a preface praising Mitford’s sunny temperament, keen eye for nature, and charm as dramatist and letter-writer, then moves into her early life: a loving childhood at Alresford with garden, orchard, and the Newfoundland dog Coe; vivid portraits of village characters like Jacob Giles the cobbler and Will Skinner the barber; and rustic scenes such as a blacksmith-escorted wedding. It follows the family to Reading amid her father’s financial imprudence, includes the child’s first dazzled visit to London, and then a richly detailed sojourn at Lyme Regis—its Great House, panelled chamber, gardens and spring, coastal storms, fossil-collecting walks, and even a dining-room ceiling collapse. After a hasty retreat to London within the “rules” and a sudden lottery win on her tenth birthday, the narrative returns to Reading’s markets and mentors (notably Dr. Valpy), before shifting to Mary’s schooling: the Abbey School’s move to Hans Place, her initial shyness, guidance by the beloved Miss Rowden, a comic French disciplinarian episode, and her secret awakening to theatre and Molière. Supper-table sketches of French émigrés animate the social backdrop, while brief letters and scenes show her voracious reading and early Latin, and introduce Mlle Rose, a Bretonne orphan, and “Betsy,” a new pupil guarded from French influences by her blustering father. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1920 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Women intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hill, Ellen G. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924013525559/page/n10/mode/1up">https://archive.org/details/cu31924013525559/page/n10/mode/1up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76491">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76491</a> |
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