The sweet-natured, gossipy diaries of a Victorian country clergyman with a full introduction and archive material detailing the history of the diary. This is the only proper edition of Kilvert's Diary.
Francis Kilvert (Author)
Robert Francis Kilvert was a Victorian country clergyman. He was
born at Hardenhuish, or Harnish, near Chippenham in Wiltshire, on
the 3rd December, 1840, the second child of the Rev. Robert
Kilvert, and of Thermuthis. Francis Kilvert spent his early years
at Hardenhuish, was educated privately, went in due course to
Wadham College, Oxford, and entered the Church. He began writing a
diary on 1 Jan 1870 and continued until his early death in
1879.
William Plomer (Edited by)
William Plomer CBE (1903-1973) was a South African and British
novelist, poet and literary editor. An editor at F&F, he was
also a reader at Cape where he worked on Kilvert's Diaries.
Kilvert has touched and delighted and (mildly shocked) readers of
his diaries ever since they were first published. New readers are
in for a treat
One of the most enchanting portraits of English rural life ever
written...Kilvert's lyrical nature writing is recognised for its
Wordsworthian sensibility
*Guardian*
One of the best books in English
*Sunday Times*
Funny, lyrical, witty and wise, Robert Kilvert’s diaries are a
treasure-house of vital fieldwork and social observation. Parochial
is the best sense, he joyed in the natural wonders of his parish,
recording the trials and splendours of his day-to-day. As such, the
diary is a marvel of observance; a hybrid hymn to a world now lost
and a vibrant counterpoint to fellow poet-cleric, Gerard Manley
Hopkins
The best picture of quiet vicarage life in Victorian England that
has yet been given to us
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