{"product_id":"2026100008686-secondhand-kilverts-diary-1870-1879-life-in-the-english-countryside-in-mid-victorian-times","title":"Kilvert's Diary: 1870-1879: Life In The English Countryside In Mid-Victorian Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew documents capture the heartbeat of Victorian rural England as vividly and intimately as Kilvert's Diary: 1870-1879. Written by the Reverend Francis Kilvert, a curate serving the Welsh border parishes of Clyro and Langley Burrell, this remarkable diary chronicles nine years of mid-Victorian life with extraordinary candour, warmth, and lyrical beauty. From tender portraits of parishioners and labourers to sweeping descriptions of the Wye Valley landscape, Kilvert's pen illuminates a world of hay harvests, country dances, pastoral sermons, and quiet human dramas that might otherwise have been lost to time.\n\nKilvert's prose carries a poet's sensibility and a naturalist's eye, presenting the English countryside not as a backdrop but as a living, breathing character in its own right. His diary stands as an invaluable primary source for historians and a deeply pleasurable read for anyone drawn to the rhythms of Victorian society, class, faith, and rural community. Scholarly yet deeply personal, it occupies a singular place in the canon of English diarists — and leaves the reader wondering what further secrets might lie within the pages Kilvert himself chose to destroy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572476743899,"sku":"2026100008686-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dae0f1ca-01ac-4e6f-beeb-41430a6c337e.png?v=1791166588","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008686-secondhand-kilverts-diary-1870-1879-life-in-the-english-countryside-in-mid-victorian-times","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}