166 Notes to pages 35–41
- Ibid., pp. 49–50.
- Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, vol. 2, pp. 611–12; entry for 24 October
1909. - Ibid., p. 730; entry for 17 September 1915.
- Ibid.
- Th ompson, Lark Rise to Candleford, pp. 246, 247.
- Williams, A Wiltshire Village, p. 163.
- Sturt, Change in the Village, p. 80.
- Sturt, Th e Bettesworth Book, p. 182.
- Sturt, Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, p. 182.
- See R. Jeff eries, ‘Th e Labourer’s Daily Life’ in Th e Toilers of the Field (1892) (London:
MacDonald Futura, 1981), pp. 93–4. - W. J. Keith, Th e Rural Tradition: William Cobbett, Gilbert White and Other Non-Fiction
Prose Writers of the English Countryside (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1975), p. 150. - Sturt, Th e Wheelwright’s Shop, p. 154.
- Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, vol. 2, pp. 663, 669; entries for 21 March
1912; 26 February 1912 and 21 March 1912. - Sturt’s position here may refl ect the infl uence of H. D. Th oreau, of whom he wrote, ‘to
me it seems that no man, of those who leave their record in books, has known so well the
value of life’, and also of John Ruskin’s concerns for work that disregards the well-being of
the human spirit (see Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, vol. 1, p. 54; entry
for 26 October 1890). - Ibid., vol. 2, p. 671; entry for 26 August 1912. Th e Slingo family are referred to on a
number of occasions over the years, and it seems somewhat ironic that Sturt makes
this claim about Nipper’s contentment when elsewhere he records the arduousness of
his work and the inadequacy of his pay – see, for example, 12 January 1907 (p. 522); 9
March 1907 (p. 528); 25 July 1908 (pp. 567–8). - Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, vol. 2, p. 672.
- Ibid., p. 672.
- Ibid., p. 673.
- Ibid., p. 596; entry for 3 July 1909.
- Keith, Th e Rural Tradition, p. 147.
- Letter to Arnold Bennett, 27 December 1904, cited by E. D. Mackerness in his ‘Intro-
duction’ to Th e Journals of George Sturt, p. 3. - D. Gervais, Literary Englands: Versions of ‘Englishness’ in Modern Writing (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 126. - Sturt, Th e Journals of George Sturt 1890–1927, vol. 2, p. 728; entry for 23 August 1915.
- Ibid., p. 859; entry for 3 November 1924.
- Ibid., pp. 837–8; entry for 8 May 1922. Sturt and the two sisters with whom he lived
were all unmarried. His brother married but had no children, so the family died with
their generation.
3 Goodman, ‘At Work and at Play: Charles Lee’s Cynthia in the West’
- Th is chapter develops ideas about this novel that were initially discussed in G. Goodman,
‘Rural Geographies: Th e Figure in the Landscape in Literature of Cornwall’, in P. Payton
(ed), Cornish Studies: 20 (Exeter: University of Exeter, 2012), pp. 148–65. - C. Lee, Cynthia in the West (London: Grant Richards, 1900), p. 118.