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Margaret Leigh

Margaret Leigh

Margaret Leigh was the author of Driftwood and Tangle, Spade Among the Rushes, Highland Homespun, Harvest of the Moor and My Kingdom for a Horse. She was born in London in 1894, the cousin of novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the daughter of an Oxford don. Her childhood was spent wandering Europe and beyond for her father’s health, and following his death she became a governess, teacher and university lecturer. In what would become a life-long habit, Margaret changed tack dramatically and turned to agriculture to support herself and her mother, studying the subject and working farms and crofts, most notably in the north west of Scotland. She died in 1973.
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Spade Among the Rushes

Spade Among the Rushes


ISBN: 9781841589862
Category: History, Gaelic, Crofting, Biography, Agriculture And Farming
Author: Margaret Leigh
Publication Date: April 2011
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: reprinting  


Synopsis:

This lucid account of crofting life during the second World War has been a popular classic since its first publication in 1949.


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