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 today. - (ch. 11, School)

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…

The human eye loves to rest upon wide expances of pure colour: the moors in the purple heyday of heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies cal…

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