- Paperback: 227 pages
- Publisher: The Bellfield Press. 4 Bellfield Terrace, EH15 2BJ; sixth reprint, December 2007 edition (7 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0952655470
- ISBN-13: 978-0952655473
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,199,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The book is taken from Alice's original diaries, written in her twilight years as a record of her early days as a manse child and provides a gentle snapshot of 19th century life. While a reader might expect the work to be self-indulgent, it is instead charming and beautifully written. appreciative of the simple pleasures of Victorian life and highly descriptive of life with numerous diblings and survival on a small stipend. . . --Life and Work
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One of eleven children, Alice Thiiele Smith was born in 1858 in rural Aberdeenshire. Her eldest brother achieved international fame as a Hebrew scholar but was accused of heresy for his advanced views. Alice wrote her memoirs late in life but her story remains evocative of the pleasures and trials of growing up in the Victorian era.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Never too dry, never academically,
By Peter Greiner (Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Children of the Manse: Growing Up in Victorian Aberdeenshire (Paperback)
"Children of the Manse" is a book quite worthwhile to read for someone who is interested in the Scottish rural family- and church-life of the 19th century. Never too dry, never academically is it nevertheless very informing and entertaining at the same time.
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Victorian Life and Education,
This review is from: Children of the Manse: Growing Up in Victorian Aberdeenshire (Paperback)
I have read Children of the Manse with great pleasure and delight. It gives a fine impression of life during the second half of the nineteenth century in Scotland. Fortunately it stays above plain repetitions of dates of birth, marriage and death, and gives quite a vivid, often touching picture of family life without ever becoming indiscreet. And it points out, what kind of privilege learning and studying once was, at times when education only could be gained by a great deal of modesty and self-denial.
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