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Kilvert's Diary, 1870-79 (Penguin)

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He was educated privately in Bath by his uncle, Francis Kilvert, before going up to Wadham College, Oxford. He was born at Hardenhuish, or Harnish, near Chippenham in Wiltshire, on the 3rd December, 1840, the second child of the Rev.

It is hard to judge his partly paedophile proclivities from a current perspective - the dubious sentiments of older men for younger girls seem to have been more accepted then - if not acted on - though his belief that those subjected to his attentions always adored and felt comfortable with him, was not necessarily right. The great bell boomed high overhead and the deep thrilling vibration hung trembling in the air long after the stroke of the bell. The first entry in the published version starts on 18 January, so we do not know if he gave a reason for starting to keep a diary on that particular date. Romance and sexual attraction is where Kilvert is most Victorian, though there is a bit about his reaction to the Prince of Wales's illness which is pretty foreign. So the clergy and choir came to meet us at the door, then turned and moved up the Cathedral nave chanting in solemn procession, `I am the Resurrection and the Life saith the Lord'.Of course it was no fault of hers but the Royal yacht was travelling too fast through the crowded waters of the Solent. Given that the book is only fragments of the original diary ( to an extent positively reduced to a manageable size) there is a great deal in here about rural life, Victorian mindsets, and the landscape, and incidentally the class system, to maintain interest. The series is/was a set of beautifully filmed short episodes, reflecting Kilvert's often brief diary entries.

The church is very much integrated in the community - Kilvert, though a solid Anglican, is generally fair to Catholics and nonconformists, though I suspect wouldn't be very accommodating to sceptics or atheist, and he shows the Church world as varied in character and virtue as any other.A different selection from Plomer's abridgement was published as Journal of a Country Curate: Selections from the Diary of Francis Kilvert by The Folio Society in 1960. On Mrs Kilvert’s death in 1911 the remaining twenty-two notebooks were passed to Kilvert’s sister Dora Pitcairn who in turn left them to her niece Frances Essex Hope, n ée Smith. The nature writing is very strong, as are the descriptions of rural life and the memories of the elderly parishioners he visits, some of whom remember back into the previous century. One very fat man had constituted himself chiefest mourner of all and walked next the coffin before my Father and myself. The coffin went out immediately and the pall bearers filed out in pairs after it, taking their places and holding each his pall tassel on either side.

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