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Sabine Baring-Gould : the life and work of a complete Victorian / J .E. Thomas.
Van Pelt - Yarnall Collection BX5199.B3 T46 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, J. E. (James Edward)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924.
- Baring-Gould, S.
- Church of England--Clergy--Biography.
- Church of England.
- Clergy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Life and work of a complete Victorian
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud : Fonthill Media, 2015.
- Summary:
- Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the most remarkable Englishmen of the Victorian Age. Born as the heir to an estate in Devon, he received an erratic education traveling on the continent. Eventually he became a clergyman, and when thirty he married an eighteen year old mill girl, and act which attracted national interest and comment. Over the next sixty years he became famous as a pioneer archaeologist, the first collector of West Country folk music, composer of hymns, a writer on theology-he was extremely critical of his Church-and one of the most popular novelists of the day. As well as this staggering output, he ran his large estate with compassion, and as if to cement his Victorian credentials he and Grace had fifteen children. He died in 1924 aged eighty nine. This biography analyses in detail his extraordinary life and work, especially his literary output, and draws a picture of a great character.
- Contents:
- 1 'If Papa refuses to let me go for years, then I must wait for years and prepare' 23
- 2 'Dalton went commonly by the designation of Dalton i't' Muck' 50
- 3 'Essex peasants were dull, shy, reserved and suspicious' I never managed to understand them, nor they to understand me' 75
- 4 'It was a great satisfaction to me at last to be able to settle into my own house' 99
- 5 'The recovery of our West-Country ballads has been the principal achievement of my life' 126
- 6 'My father was broke and bad to sell the horses' 149
- 7 'It is by his novels that be is best known to the world' 165
- 8 'He is a High Churchman, who is a man of faith and of order' 182
- 9 'I shall not be sorry to go to my Great Master and Lord and meet again the dear ones I have lost' 214.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781781554593
- 1781554595
- OCLC:
- 925306737
- Publisher Number:
- 99968538970
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