HE poet and novelist William Plomer, when working in his role as principal reader for the Bloomsbury publisher Jonathan Cape in 1937, excavated from a pile of manuscripts two bound Victorian notebooks sent in by the descendants of an unknown country clergyman from the Welsh borders. The Revd Francis Kilvert, who died at the age of 38 from peritonitis, had kept a diary from 1870 up to the year of his death, 1879, and the notebooks were but two of a collection of 20 of varying lengths, containing the surviving parts of the
Kilvert’s Diary
Feb 22, 2023
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