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Lydia in the Country (or Mrs Wickham Reflects) *COMPLETE*

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Reads 284
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Parts 20
Time 3h 45m

Lydia Bennett has been consigned by widowhood and her own sisters to the remote village of Lowick. She intends to stay for only a week, but the fanatical local Reverend, Mr Wakefield, is waging a war on fun - Christmas carols are cancelled, the Harvest Festival is banned and May Day dancing considered the greatest horror of all.

Will Lydia be able to ensure the town's thousand year old May Day celebrations go ahead? Will local landowner Mr Sitwell, caught between his sense of responsibility and the outright cruelty of the priest, join Lydia or oppose her? 

In the battle between society and sobriety who will prevail?

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