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Children of the Mist
1898
Will Blanchard, a hot-headed young water-bailiff, loves Phoebe Lyddon, daughter of a prosperous Teign-valley miller who forbids the match. When the Grimbal brothers come home from South Africa and John Grimbal sets his sights on Phoebe, an enmity takes hold that runs for a decade. The novel that opens the Dartmoor Cycle.
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Sources: Project Gutenberg (free text) · Internet Archive (free scan) · Goodreads. First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.
Number 1 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 100, 1900“It is a vast solitude. Save the convict settlement of Princetown and a few scattered cottages abutting on the roads which cross the central district, scarce a human habitation greets the eye... the traveller may walk from the outskirts of Princetown to Okehampton — a good fifteen miles — without ...”
Also on Our DartmoorPart of Eylesbarrow watershed reave — Scheduled Monument: a section of prehistoric boundary wall that defined land use on the high moor.
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