The Arts In Berwick -- Other Narratives
Stories of Countryfolk

Literary interest in the lives of country people has really only blossomed in the latter part of the 20th.Century.

Most 19th.Century travellers did not expect the rural population to have much in the way of an education. Consequently in novels and plays rural people are at best a comic turn. Into 1930s journalists venturing into the Berwick hinterland treated the odd peasant poet they found with an amused indulgence.

Only late 20th.Century writers, such as Sue Glover with "Bondagers", treat the rural community with due respect.

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