"An industrial worker would sooner have a £5 note but a countryman must have praise."
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Akenfield (1969), ch. 5
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Ronald Blythe
Ronald George Blythe CBE FRSL (6 November 1922 – 14 January 2023) was a British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield (1969), an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He wrote a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled "Word from Wormingford".
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