“Tue following pages contain an attempt to delineate country scenery and country manners, as they exist in a small village in the south of England, The writer may at least claim the merit of a hearty love of her subject, and of that lecal and personal familiarity which only a long residence in one neighbourhood could have enabied her to attain.”
The little village of Three Mile Cross in Berkshire was Mary Russell Mitford's home for thirty years. She has drawn on her observations of the locality for many of her short essays, the best of which appear in this book.