I have saved here "Round About the Little Steeple" the story of a Wiltshire Parson 1573 -1623 which maybe my holiday reading I also have a book written by a cousin Whitsunday's Child: A Country Life in Pictures (Paperback) by Vera Punter (Author), et al. All about Malmesbury, it seems she was a photo fan from an early age and documented her life in a Cotswolds town <G> Eliz On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:01:42 -0000, Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I just downloaded it from googlebooks <G> and I found Wood Magic at > > archive.org from a link at U. Penn > > > Again thanks for the leads <G> > > Hope you enjoy dipping into Bevis and Wood Magic, Eliz. > > I like books about the countryside in past times. > > I have A Country Child by Alison Uttley, which was first published in 1931. > > This novel is about a young girl, in Victorian times, growing up on a farm > in the countryside. Although set in Derbyshire, much of what is so vividly > described would have been familiar to our local ancestors of the time. > > The story includes a description of Christmas celebrations in a farmhouse > kitchen. > > The author drew on memories of her own childhood and they've made a lasting > impression on me as I have read the story again and again over the years > since I acquired the book in my own youth. > > The novel is by my side as I write as I am going to read Chapter 12 > December and Chapter 12 Christmas Day to get into the mood for Christmas. > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:38:23 -0000, Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> wrote: > I have saved here "Round About the Little Steeple" the story of a > Wiltshire Parson 1573 -1623 which maybe my holiday reading The title of this sounds intriguing, Eliz, and I see that the author of this 1960 book is Ida Gandy, who also wrote A Wiltshire Childhood (1929). There is a section on Bishop Cannings village and Ida Gandy , who was born in 1885, on the following web page: http://bishopscannings.net/History.htm -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com