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Wry Romance Of The Literary Rectory

Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. For many, the Georgian rectory nestling against an historic church immediately evokes a scene from a Jane Austen novel, for others
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Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. For many, the Georgian rectory nestling against an historic church immediately evokes a scene from a Jane Austen novel, for others it conjures up something much darker, the parsonage at Haworth where the Bronte sisters were confined. In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult & from which they drew inspiration. Each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage & the effect it had on them. The story is often heartwarming, with amateur theatricals & games of tennis, but in several cases it is a tale where the serene exterior belies the tensions within but it was those very tensions that yielded some of our greatest poetry & literature.

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Traditional - Something that has become the same through a period of time and thus repeated.
Traditional - Something that has been around for a while and is repeated regularly.
Home - A place of permanent residence for families.
Exterior - The outer of something usually what is visible.
Family - A group of people that live together made up from parents and children.

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Waterstones
Waterstones is a leading high street and online bookseller with thirty years' experience. The company now has almost 300 stores throughout the UK, including the Piccadilly flagship store which is the largest bookshop in Europe. Other superstores are located in Glasgow, Nottingham, Manchester and Bath. The largest stores stock around 200,000 titles while average shops stock around 30,000. Waterstones' customers are invited to browse and enjoy the unique selection of books that every shop strives to provide. The company is staffed by knowledgeable people who love books and are happy to help customers find the book they are looking for. Shops often contain cafes where customers may take a break from browsing and enjoy a little refreshment amidst the relaxing atmosphere. While browsing instore can be a rewarding way to buy books, Waterstones also operates a user friendly and streamlined website from which books can be ordered quickly and efficiently.
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