Mad Shepherds by L P Jacks (Author) , Mackenzie Crook (Introduction By) Women as well as men

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take a tour of Austen's world from the rolling hills of Derbyshire

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Mad Shepherds by L P Jacks (Author) , Mackenzie Crook (Introduction By) Women as well as menFirst published in 1910, Mad Shepherds, subtitled and other human stories, is an extraordinary book. The author, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, was a philosopher, educator, writerand Unitarian minister, who came to live in the Vale of Evesham in the northernCotswolds at the end of the nineteenth century. Mad Shepherds is alightly fictionalised account of life in the village, which Jacks callsDeadborough, and is also a highly idiosyncratic and authentic