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Hope St. Clair comes back from a London season with her aunt, beautifully dressed and quietly unhappy, to her father's quiet house in a cathedral town. A new friend, who has given up slum work for bee-farming, shows her another way to live, and the dream of a cottage with a small poultry-farm becomes a matter of practical arithmetic. Amy Le Feuvre wrote for a public that expected a religious answer and gave it — but the small economies and country work of the second half are closely observed. Forty-nine plates by painters including Gainsborough and Millais trace the wooded landscapes, hop gardens and cottage doorways that frame this story of quiet English lives.
Hope St. Clair comes back from a London season with her aunt, beautifully dressed and quietly unhappy, to her father's quiet house in a cathedral town. A new friend, who has given up slum work for bee-farming, shows her another way to live, and the dream of a cottage with a small poultry-farm bec...
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Amy Le Feuvre (1861-1929) was an English writer of children's and family fiction who published over a hundred books, mostly through the Religious Tract Society. Her works include Probable Sons, Teddy's Button, Odd, and Heather's Mistress.
Amy Le Feuvre (1861-1929) was an English writer of children's and family fiction who published over a hundred books, mostly through the Religious Tract Society. Her works include Probable Sons, Teddy's Button, Odd, and Heather's Mistress.
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