Author: Marshall, Sybil Illust. by Ewart Oakeshott:
Title: Fenland Chronicle. Recollections of William Henry and Kate Mary Edwards Collected and Edited by Their Daughter.
Description: Cambridge, At the University Press, 1967 1st Ed., hard cover brown linen-style cloth bds, title block to spine, gilt lettering, VG+, clipped dust jacket, enclosed in protective film, not a lib. bk, Good+, closed tear at spine base, contents clean and tight, pp280. The author transcribes the recollections of her parents in their own dialect, looking back over 100 years on life in the Fens.

Keywords: memoir Ewart Oakeshott biography life Fens East Anglia humour people past history turf cutting waterways windmill drainage Fenland dialect chronicle


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