English Village Life: A Reading List

Posted by Kristine at 7/23/2010 03:49:00 PM

• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
• A Much Married Man by Nicholas Coleridge
• The "Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter" Series by Susan Wittig Albert:  
• The Tale of Hill Top Farm
• The Tale of Holly How
• The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood
• The Tale of Hawthorn House
• The Tale of Briar Bank
• The Tale of Applebeck Orchard
• The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
• The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope:
• The Warden (1855)
• Barchester Towers (1857)
• Doctor Thorne (1858)
• Framley Parsonage (1861)
• The Small House at Allington (1864)
• The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
• The Barsetshire Novels (29 books) by Angela Thirkell
• The Fairacre Series (18 books) and Thrush Green Series (12 books) by Miss Read
• Tales from Turnham Malpas
• The "Make Way for Lucia" Series by E.F. Benson  
• Queen Lucia (1920)
• Miss Mapp (1922)
• Lucia in London (1927)
• Mapp and Lucia (1931)
• Lucia's Progress (1935, also known as The Worshipful Lucia)
• Trouble for Lucia (1939)
• The "Allways Trilogy" by Bevery Nichols:
• Down the Garden Path
• A Thatched Roof
• Village in a Valley
• The "Appletree Saga" by Mary Emily Pearce:
  
  • Apple Tree Lean Down (1973)
  • Jack Mercybright (1975)
  • The Sorrowing Wind (1975)
  Other novels by Mary E. Pearce:
  
  • Cast a Long Shadow (1977)
  • The Two Farms (1985)
  • The Land Endures (1978)
  • Seedtime and Harvest (1980)
  • Polsinney Harbour (1984)
  • The Old House at Railes (1993)

• Haweswater by Sarah Hall
• The New Rector by Rebecca Shaw
• A Month in the Country by James Carr
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
• Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
• Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy and Still Glides the Stream by Flora Thompson
• The Cranford Chronicles by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
• Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• Diary of a Country Parson: 1758-1802 by James Woodforde
• The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• Nonfiction: Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe

Authors

• D.E. Stevenson
• Jane Austen
• Barbara Pym
• Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint)
• P.G. Wodehouse

Paintings by Helen Allingham (1848-1926)

Labels: Books, Reading

2 Comments:

1. Faith said...
   July 26, 2010 at 11:27 AM  
   I love this list!!!
   
   My dh and I have just started watching Larkrise to Candleford. He downloaded it on his ipad and we've been watching in bed before we go to sleep! We are up to episode 4. Have you seen them?
   
   I do wish you lived next door to me. I think we are kindred spirits!
   Kristine said...
   July 26, 2010 at 1:09 PM  
   Lark Rise to Candleford was actually the inspiration behind this list. After finishing the book and Flora Thompson's other work, I was eager for more.
   
   You will LOVE the episodes. They're my favorite thing, ever - I actually ordered Season 3 from England because I couldn't wait to watch it (not realizing the episodes were all on YouTube). I was *thrilled* to learn that Season 4 will start filming soon.
   
   I do wish I lived next door too!

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