WALLACE, Doreen.: The Portion of the Levites. , London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1932.

1st edition. Ex Hospital Library Depot, Cambridge. Pp.320, preface reads: "No character in this book is to be taken as the portrait of a living person. I have chapter and verse, however, for the tithe-collecting incidents", inkstamp to front free endpaper, 2cm vertical strip cut from inner endpaper. Library rebound in blue cloth. G. Scarce. ** "Doreen Wallace (1897-1989) was a novelist and social campaigner, who wrote a number of books on East Anglian life. In the 1930s she had campaigned as chairman of the National Tithepayers Association to support farmers' rights against the claims of the church to collect a tithe on their lands. She and her husband refused to pay and for six weeks in 1934 their farm was in a state of virtual siege. She later recorded these events in her book 'The Tithe War'. From Rudsdale's account, it appears that she continued to maintain close ties to the farming community during the Second World War" (ww2homefront blog). Doreen Wallace was also a Fascist sympathiser. (Book ref. 37268)  £25.00

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