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The Bettesworth Book Talks with a Surrey Peasant 1st Edition by George Sturt ISBN 978-1108003698 1108003699

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Author(s): George Sturt
ISBN(s): 9781108003698, 1108003699
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 5.36 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  1108003699

ISBN 13: 978-1108003698

Author: George Sturt

In 1901, George Sturt (using the pen-name George Bourne) published this biography of his gardener, Frederick Bettesworth. This unusual ethnographic account, written in a modified dialect, uniquely captures rural life in late nineteenth-century England. The book bridges the class divide between ‘master and man’ as Sturt, through many interviews, gets to know his down-to-earth day labourer, and comes to understand peasant life and poverty as seen through the eyes of Bettesworth. In the introduction, Sturt precisely lays out his interviewing methodology, which allows the reader to understand both men as the conversations, and the book, progress. Through 35 chapters, he opens a window on the social relationships between the classes amid descriptions of the work, childhood, education, and family life of the region’s agricultural workers. Sturt is humbled and enriched by his friendship with Bettesworth, calling him the ‘voice of Britain’, a man ‘rugged, unresting, irresistible’.
 

Table of contents: 

  1. Introductory

  2. Boyhood and Youth

  3. A Roaming Commission

  4. Youth

  5. Wanderings

  6. Harvest Talk

  7. Sundry Appreciations

  8. A Favourite Horse

  9. Other Horses

  10. “Much Have I Seen” — And Done

  11. Further Observations on Well-Sinking

  12. How the Harvesters Travel

  13. Practical Jokes

  14. Nicknames

  15. Pigs and the Weather

  16. Christmas — And After

  17. Gypsies

  18. Old Biggs

  19. Laying Turf

  20. From Bees to April Fools

  21. Contains a Story of Weyhill Fair

  22. Concerning Many Matters

  23. Exasperation

  24. Weather and Toothache

  25. Pets

  26. Of Pigs and Cats

  27. Cricket

  28. A Shifty Employer

  29. Gypsies Again

  30. Our Dominant Topic

  31. The Book-Learned

  32. One of the Old School

  33. Philosophy

  34. Hops

  35. A Wet Hop-Picking — Conclusion

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