The Diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765 - Softcover

Turner, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952451603 ISBN 13: 9780952451600

Publisher: CTR Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

Thomas Turner (1729-93) was a key figure in the village of East Hoathly, Sussex, where he was a shopkeeper, undertaker, schoolmaster, tax-gatherer, churchwarden, overseer of the poor, and much besides. In his diary he recorded eleven colourful years of daily life in a Georgian village. Here are boisterous parties (after one of these the rector's wife helped pull Turner from his bed in the early hours and made him dance in his wife's petticoat), cricket matches, cockfighting, horse-racing, unexpected windfalls of confiscated brandy... Here too are vivid and memorable portraits of those whose lives and deaths would otherwise only be fodder for the statisticians.

About this edition

• Publisher: CTR Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0952451603
• ISBN 13: 9780952451600
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Vaisey David