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100 1 _aMartineau, Harriet,
_d1802-1876
245 1 0 _aIllustrations of taxation
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-15
505 0 _aThe park and the paddock -- The tenth haycock -- The Jerseyman meeting -- The Jerseyman parting -- The scholars of Arneside.
508 _aEmmanuel Ackerman, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Illustrations of taxation" by Harriet Martineau is a collection of didactic tales written in the early 19th century. It uses lively domestic and rural scenes to show how taxes, rents, and game laws press on everyday people, beginning with the return of the Cranston heirs to their long-shuttered estate and the frictions that follow between landowners, tradespeople, and poachers. Central figures include the Cranston siblings—Richard, James, Wallace, and Fanny—alongside the horse-dealer Swallow, his identical twin daughters Anne and Sarah, and the ever-calculating assessor, Mr. Taplin. The opening of the first tale, The Park and the Paddock, follows the Cranstons as they break into their sealed house at Fellbrow, survey its desolation (owl, cobwebs, and a grim cat-and-rat relic), and set about repairs while hearing warnings of poaching. In town, Fanny’s valet meets gossiping shopkeepers whose complaints about hair-powder, rents, and house-duty introduce the book’s tax theme, while the assessor eyes the new family’s dogs, carriages, and windows. At the Paddock, Swallow hurriedly loads a van with suspect “packages” as the huntsman and then the assessor arrive, and his twin daughters—Anne and the sharper Sarah—come into view. James, a clergyman and sportsman, flirts with the twins between funerals and house-hunting, lunches with a farmer who explains the ruinous cost of game on crops and the quiet league with poachers, and debates the injustices of the land-tax. As James keeps visiting to find Fanny a horse, Sarah displaces Anne in his favor; learning of a planned night expedition, she tries to warn him off, while the Paddock readies drink, pipes, and sawdust for what looks like a poaching night and James urges his brother to act. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Charles Fox, Paternoster-Row, 1834
653 _aPolitical fiction, English
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112079270424&view=1up&seq=1&skin=2021
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77059
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