'Thank God for my good dinner. Thank Father and Mother. Amen' was the grace used in one family, and it certainly had the merit of giving credit where credit was due. - (ch. 1, Poor People's Houses)

'Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise peole. - (ch. 1, Poor People's Houses)

Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many g…

There was no Victoria in the school...That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to the extent imagined by perioid novelists of…