The Life and Hard Times of Mary Caney

by Jill Mason

Mary Caney possessed a remarkable strength of character. She was born to a Norfolk agricultural labourer in 1790 and showed great resilience and strength throughout a lifetime of deprivation and hardship. Mary died in 1878 and the story plots the ups and downs, of which there were many, throughout her long life. It is based on a skeleton of fact wrapped up in a liberal amount of fiction revealing much about rural social history of that era. Mary Caney was a real person and many of the dates and events in the book have been gleaned from church records, censuses and newspaper reports spanning her lifetime.

342 pages, Paperback

Published July 21, 2017