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Dorothy Hartley (1893 - 1985) is an author revered by enthusiasts for old English food and cookery and English country life. Her many books on these subjects, often illustrated with her own drawings, are collectors' items. Her greatest book, Food in England, has remained in print since its first appearance in 1954. During 1933 - 1936, she was commissioned by the Daily Sketch newspaper to write articles describing the English countryside, old English crafts and customs, country foods and country ways (with the odd excursion to Wales, Scotland and Ireand). She did her research in the British Museum (she had by then written several books of social history) and on the ground, travelling around the country on her sturdy bicycle, staying with her subjects or under hedges. These articles were to form her knowledge-bank which she used in several books that came out during the 1930s and beyond (particularly Here's England, 1935), but they have never been seen as they were first written. We offer a selection, with a foreword by Lucy Worsley (who is presenting the BBC TV documentary on Hartley to be transmitted this autumn) and introduced by the writer Adrian Bailey (who befriended Dorothy Hartley in her later life). The 60 articles are illustrated with some of Hartley's own snapshots which she kept as notes for future reference. The subjects range widely on matters as various as thatching, clog-making, eels, the country chemist, marram grass, sand shoes, crabs, sheep shearing, spring-cleaning, country kitchens, ploughing, weather lore, and elevenses. It will be classic.
Contents
Foreword by LUCY WORSLEY Introduction by ADRIAN BAILEY Thinking Mutton. Pedigree and Mousetrap. More about Cheese. Reet Good Clogs. The Jolly Tent Peggers. Smoo Cave. A Village Wedding. Miles and Miles of Shingle from which Tons of Pebbles are Picked. Don Back-stays and Off We Go. This is the Way We Bake Our Bread. The Village Wakes Up. Ever Been to a Sheep-Shearing. This Week we'll Thatch. Marram grass: a Craft as Old as England. A Lesson in Haymaking. Many Are the Uses of Watercress. Mushroom-time. There's more than One Way of Making Butter. A Day in the Life of a Scarecrow. Come Where The Bilberry Grows. Country Ways with Blackberries. It's the Nice Folk you Meet on a Country Bus. Now the Festive Season's Here, Let Us Consider Our Drinks. Putting the Turnips to Bed. Ever Tasted Laver? Some Ways They Have With Oatmeal. It's Oats that make the Hardy Folk. Learn your Bread and be a Man. With the Round Britain Spring Cleaners. By a Woodman's Fire. Toffee Apples. Women Down on the Farm. Seaweed for Dinner. Across the Apples and Round the Fruit. Oour Toys in England Now. Here's a Pretty Kettle of Fish. Just a Gloucestershire Cot. When The Cherries Come to Town. Put me on a Haystack. The Gentleman Gypsy. When the Cider Sings. Quick Work in a Welsh Kitchen. All about Tea in England Then. Our Village Wedding Cakes Include Spice of Reminiscence and Circumstantial. Superstition. Our Weather is Changing say the Wise Old Shepherds. The Goodness that only Bad Weather Supplies. Village Magicians. A Lesson In Ploughing. Elevenses I Have Known. Wrigglers' 3,000-mile Swim From Ancestral Breeding Places. Peace and the Joyous Anthem of the Birds. The Perfect Winkle Eater. With the Once-Upon-A Times - Charcoal Burner's Little Wooden Hut and a Motor Car. Inishbofin. Before You're Up in England Now. Spell of the Sand. Catching a Crab. The Hundred Things on My Shopping List. Hold-up by Ploughboys: Rustic Racket That Still Makes Good Fun. Town Mouse or Country Which has the Best of It?
