Journal of a Country Curate

This selection from the diary Francis Kilvert kept between 1870 and 1879, first published more fully in 1938-40, records the daily life of a young Anglican curate on the Welsh border and in Wiltshire. He notes parish visits, sermons, walks, weather, courtship, and the look of hills, rivers, and village faces. The entries are dated impressions rather than a plotted memoir: funerals, festivals, and sudden likings sit beside clerical duty. The book is a rural journal of late-Victorian church life and landscape, abridged for continuous reading, not a novel of clerical ambition.

Quarter bound in brown cloth, white paper boards with photographs in brown. Map endpapers. Pale yellow-brown slipcase.