

"A Small Boy in the Sixties" is a poignant and evocative memoir by George Sturt, providing a detailed window into a mid-Victorian childhood in the town of Farnham, Surrey. Written with the same keen observational skill that defined his later works on rural craftsmanship, Sturt...

George Sturt (1863-1927), who also wrote under the pseudonym George Bourne, was a highly prominent writer on the traditions of rural life and the condition of the English labouring classes. Originally published in 1927, shortly after Sturt's death, this volume provides a memoir...