Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape
David Stuart Davies
Mar 2023 · Pan Macmillan
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A gorgeous anthology to dip into and savour the rich literary heritage of Yorkshire, Britain’s largest county. Yorkshire is renowned for its landscapes: the magical wilderness of the moors and the dales, its cities built on industry and mining, and its varied coastline.
All these places, as well as its people, have been portrayed and dramatized in literature through the centuries; by poets from Andrew Marvell to Simon Armitage, by novelists such as Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and of course the Brontës, all of whom are represented here. Then there are novelists such as David Storey and Barry Hines, who wrote about working-class lives in the mining towns in the 1950s and 60s. And finally some favourite characters to enjoy, such as James Herriot and the Yorkshire Shepherdess.
Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape is edited by David Stuart Davies.
All these places, as well as its people, have been portrayed and dramatized in literature through the centuries; by poets from Andrew Marvell to Simon Armitage, by novelists such as Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and of course the Brontës, all of whom are represented here. Then there are novelists such as David Storey and Barry Hines, who wrote about working-class lives in the mining towns in the 1950s and 60s. And finally some favourite characters to enjoy, such as James Herriot and the Yorkshire Shepherdess.
Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape is edited by David Stuart Davies.
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David Stuart Davies is the author of numerous novels, plays and non-fiction books, a film historian and an expert on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. A Yorkshireman through and through, he was born in Huddersfield, studied English at Leeds University and taught English for twenty years before becoming a full-time writer. He lives with his wife in Huddersfield.
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