All the Day Long

Howard Spring

• Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
• eBook ISBN:
  9781987817393
• Year: 2025

Maria Legassick is the youngest of the three daughters of a Cornish vicar, and she tells here the story of what happened, in a swiftly-changing world, to herself, her sisters, and her brilliant, gifted brother—Roger whom she loved too well; Louisa whom she admired but could never love; Bella whom she more and more despised. The book opens as an idyll in a beautiful part of Cornwall, with the vicarage looking out upon the sea, the stern old isolated father writing away for ever at ecclesiastical books that no one read; Roger dreaming of a career in scholarship; Louisa impatient, passionate, eager to be away and at work in a world she wants to change; Bella slothful and asking of life nothing but its unmindful satisfactions; in the background a chorus of rustics, including the sexton Thomas May, one of those Howard Spring characters who go to the heart. Maria is the observer who outlives them all.

Table of contents

• CHAPTER ONE 1
• CHAPTER TWO 1
• CHAPTER THREE 1
• CHAPTER FOUR 1
• CHAPTER FIVE 1
• CHAPTER SIX 1
• CHAPTER SEVEN 1
• CHAPTER EIGHT 1
• CHAPTER NINE 1
• CHAPTER TEN 1
• CHAPTER ELEVEN 1
• CHAPTER TWELVE 1
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN 1
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN 1
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN 1
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN 1
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 1
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 1
• CHAPTER NINETEEN 1
• CHAPTER TWENTY 1