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Thomas Turner (1729-1793) was a hard-working and ingenious village shopkeeper. He occupied a key position in East Hoathly, Sussex, where he was grocer, mercer, draper, undertaker, schoolmaster, surveyor, tax-gatherer, writer of wills and accounts, distributor of charity, churchwarden, overseer of the poor, and much else besides. In the eleven years of his diary, he rarely left the village for more than the occasional night: he stayed at home and recorded the minutiae of everyday village life in pre-industrial England. This edition contains about a third of the massive whole of the diary, but allows Turner to take his rightful place alongside Pepys, Evelyn, and Woodforde as an indispensable English diarist.
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This diary is truly amazing with the picture it gives of life at that time. It brings the lives of the population of a small Sussex village to life. I enjoyed it very much.
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Rasist, But creative.
10 Dec 1998
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It is a very interesting book, through the eyes of an ignorant poor white man. The books interesting caracteristics come into play when you compare it to everyday life today. IE the US Government.
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