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Fresh Leaves and Green Pastures

Fresh Leaves and Green Pastures

Fresh Leaves and Green Pastures

Jane Ellen Panton
October 2012
Paperback
9781108053037

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    Jane Ellen Panton (1847–1923) was the second daughter of the artist William Powell Frith, and an expert on domestic issues. Published in 1909, this is a further collection of Panton's memoirs, following her earlier autobiography Leaves from a Life (also reissued in this series). It looks back on life in mid-nineteenth-century England and the changes that had taken place since then, beginning by asking the question of how much the present generation knew about their country's past. Over fifteen chapters, Panton explores developments in the nature and structure of institutions such as the family, the community, the church, the electorate and the military, deeming certain changes as negative, such as the decline of county families and the gentry, while welcoming others, such as increased opportunities for women. Providing revealing insight into English middle-class concerns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book remains of interest to social historians.

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    October 2012
    Paperback
    9781108053037
    404 pages
    216 × 140 × 22 mm
    0.51kg
    5 b/w illus.
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. What do they know of England
    • 2. The county
    • 3. Townsfolk
    • 4. More townsfolk, and others
    • 5. The oldest inhabitant
    • 6. Church and chapel
    • 7. Free and independent electors
    • 8. Defenders of their country
    • 9. Finding the general
    • 10. 'Come out: 'tis now September!'
    • 11. Some of the farms
    • 12. Round the coast
    • 13. Alarums and excursions
    • 14. Uprooting
    • 15. Green pastures.
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    • Jane Ellen Panton