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"Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings" by Constance Hill is a literary biography written in the early 20th century. It presents a warm, anecdote-rich portrait of the author of Our Village, emphasizing her rural imagination, theatrical ambitions, friendships, and brilliant letters. Drawing on Mitford’s own recollections and contemporary voices, it maps the places, people, and social worlds—English villages, Reading, Lyme Regis, and circles of French émigrés—that shaped her life and writing. The opening of the book offers a preface praising Mitford’s sunny temperament, keen eye for nature, and charm as dramatist and letter-writer, then moves into her early life: a loving childhood at Alresford with garden, orchard, and the Newfoundland dog Coe; vivid portraits of village characters like Jacob Giles the cobbler and Will Skinner the barber; and rustic scenes such as a blacksmith-escorted wedding. It follows the family to Reading amid her father’s financial imprudence, includes the ch
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