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In a North Country Village

By: M. E. Francis

...eryday life set in the fictional mid-19th century Lancashire village of Thornleigh (a.k.a. Little Crosby, one of the last remaining recusant Catholic villages in England. M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the family who continue to occupy Crosby Hall to this day. Mary's husband died yo...

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