- Paperback: 216 pages
- Publisher: Austin & Macauley Publishers (28 May 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1849630119
- ISBN-13: 978-1849630115
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 839,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Part autobiography, part social history, The Quiet Vale gives glimses into the mind and observations of a very young child, describes rural life in Yorkshire before and during the Second World War, and recalls university life in the mid-nineteen forties. It depicts the sights and sounds of a vanished countryside, recalling with delicate humour.
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After Leaving teaching Margaret Stead studied Art in Harrogate and was practising and exhibiting artist for ten years. She then reurned to academic study, gaining an M.A in Art History at the former Leeds Polytechnic and a PhD in History at the University of Leeds. She has published several articles and collaborated with her husband, Geoffrey Stead, in writing THe Exotic Plant: a history of the Moravian Church in Great Britain, 1742-2000 (Epworth Press, 2003). They still live in Yorkshire.
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Though The Quiet Vale is in part written to capture a way of life in a Yorkshire village that has now gone by forever, this memoir offers much more than nostalgia. Written with a keen eye and penetrating intelligence by Margaret Stead, it is also notable for its unflinching candor and frequent flights of breathtaking language. Read this to understand the complex social relations that prevailed between a village schoolmaster's family and villagers even in supposedly "simpler" times, and for an older writer's refusal to soften vivid recollections of a family's emotional failings as well as its best moments.
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22 Dec 2010
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Though The Quiet Vale is in part written to capture a way of life in a Yorkshire village that has now gone by forever, this memoir offers much more than nostalgia. Written with a keen eye and penetrating intelligence by Margaret Stead, it is also notable for its unflinching candor and frequent flights of breathtaking language. Read this to understand the complex social relations that prevailed between a village schoolmaster's family and villagers even in supposedly "simpler" times, and for an older writer's refusal to soften vivid recollections of a family's emotional failings as well as its best moments.
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