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Norren Ford Dilcock | ||
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Useful Links: Titles to Look Out For: About the Author: During the course of her life, she wrote a good many mostly romantic novels under the pseudonyms of Jill Christian, Christian Walford and Norrey Ford. The 'Christian' part of her pseudonyms probably comes from her marriage to James Louis Christian Dilcock (1911–2000), a Midland judge and lay preacher at Walsall's (in the West Midlands, England) St Paul's Church Norren was a vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association and went on to be elected as their second Chairman (1963-1965)
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1955, Mills & Boon, hbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: Frances and Lydia were sisters; Frances a pretty young widow with two adorable children, Lydia "the plain one," kinds and domesticated but apparently doomed to spinsterhood. Their interwoven love stories are set against the background of a Yorkshire moorland village in the long, hot days of summer |
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1969, Hurst & Blackett, hbk In stock, click image above to buy for £22.00, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge of £2.80 Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Contents: The story is romantic fiction and is set in the early 19th Century in Staffordshire, England. Some of the focus is on the leather industry in England at that time, specifically in and around Walsall in the West Midlands: 'A cart pulled in, piled with bloody, wagging hides straight from the slaughter-house. The carter shouted; a big dark man, accompanied by a boy of about Noah's age, ran forward and began dragging the load down. The man sorted the material into separate piles. The boy ran backwards and forwards, in and out of a high shed, trundling the hides on a barrow. He spat on his hands, grasped the handles and pushed with a grown-up air; but once, between loads, he took time off to feed the horse with a tit-bit out of his pocket. The dark-faced man caught him, shouted, and smacked his ear sharply. The boy hopped in agony, rubbing the side of his face.' Chapters: |
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