To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
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Who would think that a little bit of leather, and two pieces of wood, had such a delightful and delighting power!
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Birth: | 16th December, 1787 |
Death: | 10th January, 1855 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Dramatist |
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Mary Russell Mitford was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village. This series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters was based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire, where she lived.
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