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Sketches of English life Character" is a vintage book by Mary Russell Mitford on the subject of English daily life, manners, and customs. Mary Russell Mitford (1787 - 1855) was an English dramatist and author best known for her book "Our Village", which contained a series of sketches of typical English village life and characters based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire, England. Not d...

Excerpt from Sketches of English Life and CharacterThese are bad times for farmers. I am sorry for it. Independently of all questions of policy, as a mere matter of taste and of old association, it was a fine thing to witness the hearty hospitality, and to think of the social happiness of a great farm house. No situation in life seemed so richly privileged, none had so much power for good and so little for evil, it seemed a place where pride c...

Excerpt from Sketches of English Life and Character These are bad times for farmers. I am sorry for it. Independently of all questions of policy, as a mere matter of taste and of Old association, it was a fine thing to witness the hearty hospitality, and to think of the social happiness of a great farm house. No situation in life seemed so richly privileged, none had so much power for good and so little for evil, it seemed a place where pride...