Pauline Wharton

The Disappearing Yeoman Pauline Wharton

'The Disappearing Yeoman' tells the story of the yeoman families of Windermere in the English Lake District, and their tenements between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. As well as describing the impact of the arrival of poets such as Wordsworth and artists in the nineteenth century, the book makes a contribution to the debate about the disappearance of the small landowner from English society. It also contains a reconstitution of the inhabitants of Windermere in the seventeenth century, and details of the ownership of farms between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, making it an indispensible aid to local historians, and house and family researchers.