Country life -- England -- Fiction; Short stories, English; Working class -- England -- Fiction
MISS GRACE OF ALL SOULS’
BY W. E. TIREBUCK
_In One Volume, price 6s_.
=The Times.=—‘Since Mrs. Gaskell wrote her _Mary Barton_ we have seen no
more interesting novel on the condition of the working classes. Mr,
Tirebuck is thoroughly master of his subject.... A vivid and impressive
narrative of the great coal strike of a couple of years ago.’
=The Literary World.= —‘Every reader anxious to hear of a work that is
full of brains and vigour may unhesitatingly enter _Miss Grace of All
Souls’_ upon his list of books worthy to be perused.... Mr. Tirebuck,
not content with providing “Grace” for our admiration, has made another
claim upon our love by presenting us to Nance Ockleshaw. For her sake
alone _Miss Grace of All Souls’_ should be read, and we hope that the
novel will make its way into many a home, there to be considered with
all the care that is due to it.’
=The World.=—‘The most remarkable contribution made by fiction to the
history of the working classes since _Mary Barton_, and it has a wider
range and import of deeper gravity. It appeals directly to the
thoughtful among readers, those who care to learn, on the object-lesson
plan, the facts and aspects of life among the multitudes, with whom they
are brought into actual contact. The girl who is its central figure is
an original and very attractive character.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘An uncommonly well-told story, interesting from
first to last. Mr. Tirebuck has drawn a truly delightful character in
the miner’s wife; indeed, the whole family might well have been sketched
straight from the life. It is difficult to make a work of fiction at
once instructive and entertaining, but Mr. Tirebuck has done it in _Miss
Grace of All Souls’_.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘An admirable piece of work. Here is realism in
its proper proportions: the rude, harsh, Methody life of the northern
miner engraved in all its essentials. Mr. Tirebuck manages to illustrate
the conditions of miners’ lives for us with complete fidelity. Not a
touch of the humour, the pathos, the tragedy, the grime, the sin, and
the ideals is lacking.... Mr. Tirebuck has done his work to perfection.
The story is not a moral tract, but a work of art of great
significance.’
=The British Weekly.=—‘Mr. Tirebuck is a practised and powerful
novelist, and in this story he has taken us right inside the heart of
the poor. His description of the collier’s wife is wonderful work.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=—‘As a picture of working men and women,
instinct as it is with knowledge, sympathy, passion, and conviction, we
have seldom, if ever, read anything so good.’
=The Manchester Courier.=—‘The character of Miss Grace reminds the
reader of the heroine of Charles Kingsley’s _Westward Ho_.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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