Our Village

First gathered from 1824 onward, these sketches describe everyday life in a Berkshire village modelled on Three Mile Cross, where Mitford lived. Short pieces treat walks, cottages, the butcher and the public house, cricket on the green, country seasons, and named neighbours whose manners are observed without a continuous plot. The narrator is a resident who records talk, weather, and small dramas of debt, courtship, and local pride. The book is a prose portrait of rural parish life rather than a novel: a sequence of visits to the same lanes and faces across the year.

Quarter bound in blue buckram with hand marbled paper covers. Dark green endpapers and slipcase. Page tops stained green.