Plowmen’s Clocks by Alison Uttley c1952 First Edition Memoirs

Description

A Lovely book of memoirs  by Alison Uttley, an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children’s series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, A Traveller in Time, about the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots

“When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are plowmen’s clocks”

Contents:

I. Kitchens —

II. Fires —

III. Summer Holidays —

IV. Travelling —

V. Boggarts and sprites —

VI. Evocation of Christmas —

VII. The herb garden —

VIII. Weather report —

IX. Autumn —

X. Choosing a house —

XI. An old account book —

XII. Flowers in Buckinghamshire