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to the contrary (see B. Reay, Rural Englands (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Mac-
millan, 2004), p. 6).- Sturt, Th e Wheelwright’s Shop, pp. 65–6.
- Sturt, Change in the Village, p. 205.
- Ibid., pp. 205, 206.
- A. Williams, A Wiltshire Village (London: Duckworth and Co., 1912), p. vii.
- In 1915 Williams published Life in a Railway Factory, a classic account of the hardships
and pressures of industrial labour. - Williams, A Wiltshire Village, p. viii.
- Ibid., p. viii.
- Ibid., p. ix.
- Ibid., p. 5.
- Ibid., p. 299.
- Ibid., p. ix.
- Ibid., p. 98. Williams particularly mocks the resistance of young girls to fi eld work: ‘how
it would soil and blister their pretty fi ngers to use the hoe or paddle, and how stained
and brown they would be with the milk of the dandelion and sow-thistle!’ (pp. 97–8). - F. Th ompson, Lark Rise to Candleford (1945) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2008), p. 58.
- Williams, A Wiltshire Village, p. 102; R. Jeff eries, ‘Field-Faring Women’, in Toilers of the
Field (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894), p. 150. Th is originally appeared in
Fraser’s Magazine (September 1875). - Th ompson, Lark Rise to Candleford, p. 58.
- G. Sturt, Lucy Bettesworth (1913) (Firle: Caliban Books, 1978), pp. 1–2.
- Ibid., pp. 3, 4, 5.
- Ibid., p. 5.
- G. Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, ed. E. D. Mackerness, 2 vols (Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), vol. 2, p. 559. - Sturt, Lucy Bettesworth, p. 9.
- Ibid., p. 10.
- Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, vol. 2, p. 563.
- Ibid., vol. 1, p. 270; entry for 26 June 1898. Sturt, Change in the Village, p. 81.
- G. Sturt, William Smith Potter and Farmer 1790–1858 (London: Chatto & Windus,
1919), pp. 17–18. - R. Jeff eries, ‘Primrose Gold in Our Village’, in Field and Farm, ed. S. J. Looker (London:
Phoenix House, 1957), p. 119. Th is article was fi rst published in Pall Mall Gazette, 8
June 1887. - Th ompson, Lark Rise to Candleford, p. 529.
- Ibid., p. 534.
- Ibid., p. 536.
- Ibid., p. 535.
- Sturt, Change in the Village, pp. 3, 11.
- Ibid., p. 106.
- Ibid., p. 110.
- G. Sturt, Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer (1907) (Firle: Caliban Books, 1978), p. 132.
- Change in the Village, p. 160.
- Ibid.
- Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, vol. 2, p. 588; entry for 26 February 1909.
- Sturt, Change in the Village, p. 193.