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Article: The Grove Diaries. The Rise and Fall of an English Family, 1809-1925.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Any reader of Desmond Hawkins's latest book will very soon discover the pleasure to be gained from pursuing the continuous diaries of the Grove family for over a century, with hardly a gap. Their collection and arrangement is a remarkable achievement. They may be read like a novel or a play; but their deeper importance is fully documented by several kinds of historical information, cleverly deployed at appropriate points in the narrative. Thus Dr. Hawkins's Foreword describing the Groves's provenance and their connections with the Pilfolds and the Shelleys, all land-owning families in Dorset, Wiltshire and Sussex, leads on to a brief introduction to each section of any ...
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