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The Complete Angler: Wordsworth Shorts, #11
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At the start of the fishing season, Jenny entered one of the bigger river competitions.
This short story was first published in The People's Friend. It has since been published in Twee Tales Too and Twee Tales More.
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Diane Wordsworth
Diane Wordsworth was born and bred in Solihull in the West Midlands when it was still Warwickshire. She started to write for magazines in 1985 and became a full-time freelance photojournalist in 1996. In 1998 she became sub-editor for several education trade magazines and started to edit classroom resources, textbooks and non-fiction books. In 2004 Diane moved from the Midlands to South Yorkshire where she edited an in-house magazine for an international steel company for six years. She still edits and writes on a freelance basis.
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The Complete Angler - Diane Wordsworth
The Complete Angler
a Wordsworth short
The Complete Angler
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a Wordsworth short
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Diane Wordsworth
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This short story was first published in The People’s Friend and has also been published in Twee Tales Too
Copyright © Diane Wordsworth 2022
Cover Image by Martin Hradil from Pixabay
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The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the creator of this work.
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