[Hardy-l] Re: Hardy-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 18

[Pat Louw]

hardy-l-request at coyote.csusm.edu wrote:

re: woodlanders historical context

Thank you once again, Rosemarie. It certainly is a most complicated area 
and very difficult to compare with the South African situation, even 
though the Knysna forest came under control of British authorities in 
the early nineteenth century. (it was then exploited for the British 
Royal Navy). However the system of "landed gentry" certainly didn't 
apply. Thank you for pointing out that "landed gentry" were not of the 
peerage - I never realized that. The intricacies of the British class 
system are very difficult to follow! I have found Simon Schama's 
"Landscape and Memory" an invaluable source of information about the 
Greenwood in England and would be interested at some later date to 
compare "Under the Greenwood Tree" with "The Woodlanders" with regard to 
the relationship between identity and place.
best wishes,
Pat

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