Tales of the Ridings
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Yorkshire speech and rural customs give these short stories their local character. F. W. Moorman draws on a world of farms, wool spinning, moorland weather and tales passed from one speaker to another. In the account of Throp's wife, Timothy Barraclough tells a listener about a couple working late at their spinning and carding. Their wish to finish before Sunday brings the household clock into the story, linking everyday labour with pride and religious observance.
The collection also includes a memoir by C. Vaughan, tracing Moorman's childhood near Dartmoor, his studies and his teaching career at Leeds. Its account of his love of birds, flowers and country walks offers a useful companion to the rural fiction. Readers interested in regional storytelling will find dialect dialogue, local beliefs and the physical details of country life, alongside a portrait of the scholar who wrote the tales.
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- Author
- F. W. Moorman
- Pages
- 46
- Language
- English
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- British Classics
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