ANNE HUGHES - The Diary of a Farmer's Wife. 1796-1797

Harmondsworth, England, Penguin, 1983. Reprint, Binding: Soft Cover, Brian Walker Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 014005457X Paperback Paperback. Slight foxing to edge. Crease on front cover. Domestic, endlessly busy and clever, but also loving and tender, Anne is the centre around which her husband and the farm revolve. Her diary is a faithful record of her day-to-day preoccupations - pig killing and cheese making, love affairs and scandals, feasts and food and the seasons passing. it is a unique and intimate evocation of the very stuff of life as it was in the days before the Industrial Revolution. Illustrations. 162 pp.