A mountain republic : a Lake District parish: eighteen men, the lake poets and The National Trust / Philippa Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Philippa, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National Trust (Great Britain).

Crosthwaite (England)--History.

Crosthwaite (England).

England--Crosthwaite.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 739 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Apollo, 2021.

Summary:

A history of Crosthwaite Parish, a place beloved by the Lake Poets, and the fight to establish a National Trust to preserve it.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE The Making of Crosthwaite Parish, 553-1769: A Secret Place

1. From St Kentigern and Strathclyde to the Normans

2. Parish, Manor Governance and War, 1183-1370

3. The Last of the Rumellis, the Eighteen Men and Belief, 1371-1534

4. A New Church and the Reformation

5. The Crosthwaite Ruling, Mining and Elizabethan Life in the Parish

6. Customary Tenants, the Civil War and the Commonwealth

7. Parish Charity, Mortgages and the Last of the Derwentwaters

8. Chapels, Oaks and Wadd

9. Enfranchisement and the Christian Family

pt. TWO Great Crosthwaite Parish Appreciated, 1769-1834

10. The Lake District Opens Up

11. The Ignorance of Strangers and `William Wordsworth of Windy Brow'

12. The Parish Encountered by the Lake Poets

13. Wordsworth and Coleridge Settle in the Lake District

14. The Statesman Poet and Historian

15. The Lake Poets

16. Southey and the Parish, and New Establishment Positions

17. The End of the War and New Battle Lines

18. The Arrival of Eliza Lynn Linton and the 1820s

19. Southey's Parish Colloquies

pt. THREE Living in Interesting Times, 1829-74

20. A Church Fracas, the Marshalls and Guides

21. The Return of the State and the Seigneur

22. The Fall: the Real `Demise' of the Parish Statesmen

23. Friendships Were For Life and Longer

24. Life in the Parish in the 1840s

25. Eliza and the Lakes and the End of the Parish

26. The End of the Mountain Republic

Afterglow

27. Marrying the Parish

28. Marrying the World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781838931827

1838931821

OCLC:

1117627665

Publisher Number:

99991104280