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The model that Mary Russell Mitford established for the literary representation of village and small-town life invited parody and satire as well as imitation, and three parodies or satires (both terms are applicable) appeared within two years of the completion of Our Village: Thomas Hood’s ‘Our Village’ (1833), a poem with a prose introduction;1 and two prose works, T. Crofton Croker’s My Village, Versus Our Village (1833)2 and C. F. Adderley’s Our Town (1834)3, published under the pseudonym ‘Peregrine Reedpen’.
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Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (Oxford Paperbacks edition, 1977 ) p. 13. All page references are to this edition.
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Edwards, P.D. (1988). From Three Mile Cross to Deerbrook and Cranford. In: Idyllic Realism from Mary Russell Mitford to Hardy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19675-3_4
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