Country Moods and Tenses: A Non-Grammarian's Chapbook Contributor(s): Olivier, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 144727198X ISBN-13: 9781447271987 Publisher: Policy Press OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
Dewey: 914.2 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.87 lbs) 140 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: . . . let the townsman say what he will, country life has more variety . . .' A contemporary of Cecil Beaton, Siegfried Sassoon and Rex Whistler, Edith Olivier is best known for her first book, the novella, The Love Child but was the author of a variety of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as becoming the mayor of Wilton, Wiltshire, in 1939. In this biographical memoir, written during the Second World War and subtitled 'A Non-Grammarian's Chapbook', Olivier takes the five grammatical moods - infinitive, imperative, indicative, subjunctive and conditional - and uses them to describe village and country life in her beloved Wiltshire as it was in 1941, the year of first publication. Covering a range of topics - from the folklore and traditions of the local area, to the weather and landscape itself - Country Moods and Tenses captures a moment and describes a world which has, in many ways, been lost to us. |