Physical description

Hard cover book. England Their England
Author: A G MacDonell
Publisher: MacMillan & Co
Date: 1933
Further Information: Red Cloth hardcover with lettering to spine in white. The spine has a black cloth repair lettering hand written also a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with the typed text PAT FIC MACD
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Flyleaf has a stamp from Warrnambool Mechanics Institute

Summary

This work is an affectionately satirical comic novel of 1920s English urban and rural society, framed as a travel memoir by a young Scotsman, Donald Cameron, who was invalided home from the Western Front and is made by his father’s will to live in England. A Welshman commissions him to write a book on the English as an outsider would see them. His research takes him through literary journalists and minor poets, a country-house weekend, work as private secretary to an MP, the League of Nations and a village cricket match. The cricket match is the most celebrated episode and a large part of the book’s enduring appeal. The book is thought to be a roman à clef: Mr Hodge is a caricature of the poet and editor Sir John Squire, and the cricket team is modelled on Squire’s Invalids club.