Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
A Month in the Country
(1980)
J. L. Carr
(December 8, 1912 – 1994)
Notes
xv North Riding:
xv Vale of Mowbray:
1 northerners vs. southerners: for some idea of the north-south divide in the UK, browse through a few of the following
Are You a Northern Bastard or Southern Fairy? (questionnaire)
It's Grim Up North (video clip; 5:16 min.)
Southerners Vs Northerners (eccentric!) (video clip; 1:46 min.)
2 Chapel
5 Churchman:
5 water-jacket:
12 marge: margarine
12 bully-beef: canned corn beef, a common trench food (see "Army says goodbye to bully beef")
32 Yorkshire pudding: bun-shaped (with a dip in the middle) British food made from batter that goes with a roast, usually eaten for Sunday dinner
Yorshire Pudding (a little history)
Tips For Making Delicious Yorkshire Puddings (with some history and how it is eaten)
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (recipe and picture)
33 besieged garrison at Lucknow: 1858 Indian mutiny in Lucknow, India
The Siege of Lucknow (1878)
34 Tess: main character from Thomas Hardy's famous novel Tess of the d'Ubervilles published in 1891.
36 jay: a type of bird in the crow family
40 Bannister-Fletcher: Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture, an essential reference book on architecture
Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture, Twentieth and Centennial Edition (book review)
Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture (google book)
20th edition (at Architecture library; Arch 720.9 F615H 1996)
43 Gladstone bag: designed in the late 1800s, it is a leather bag with structured frame that has two large compartments; see links below for some pictures
64 Passchendaele: a village in Belgium and site of an important and devastating battle during World War I
Passchendaele (some Canadian focus)
Passchendaele (Australian focus)
Passchendaele: Fighting for Belgium (New Zealand focus)
70 White Horse: the Kilburn White Horse is a large cut figure on a hill in North Yorkshire that is filled in with pebbles and whitewashed
70 Great Ebor Handicap: a famous horserace in York that takes place in August, began in 1843
70 bilberry: fruit shrubs related to the blueberry
75 glasshouse: military prison (see history at The Glasshouse - The Aldershot Military Detention Barracks)
76 M.P.s: military police
76 batman: an officer's servant
Study Questions
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Review Sheet
Characters
Tom Birkin – the narrator; about twenty-five years old (4); "nerves shot to pieces, wife gone, dead broke" (22); conscript (75);
Vinny Birkin – Tom Birkin's wife (13)
the Colonel – (19)
Edgar Ellerbeck – younger brother of Kathy (26)
Kathy Ellerbeck – fourteen years old (23)
Mr. Ellerbeck, the stationmaster – Kathy's father (24)
Alice Keach –
Revd. J. G. Keach –
Charles Moon – "twenty-seven or -eight" (15);
Time
1920
Places
Oxgodby – (1)
Presteigne – (93)
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Reference
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Reference
Carr, J. L. A Month in the Country. 1980. London: Penguin, 2010. Print.
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