The Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited by John Beresford, remained unpublished until the 20th century. The diary provides a wonderfully full account of the small community in which the diarist lived — of the births and deaths, comings and goings, illnesses, and annual celebrations, along with many other details of daily life.
As a churchman, Woodforde himself was conscientious by the standards of his time, charitable and pious without being sanctimonious and again typical of his day, deeply suspicious of enthusiasm.
The value of the diary to the historian lies in the wealth of primary source material it provides, while the general reader can bring from it the authentic flavor of 18th-century English country life. ( Wikipedia and John Greenman)
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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Section [number] of The Diary of a Country Parson. This is a LibriVox recording. Read by John Greenman. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
Say: "The Diary of a Country Parson, by James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford. [Section][number]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Section [number] of The Diary of a Country Parson by James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain. Read by John Greenman"
Only if applicable, say: "[Section title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Section] Read by John Greenman"
At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of The Diary of a Country Parson, by James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford."
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename diaryofacountryparson_##_woodforde_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. diaryofacountryparson_01_woodforde_128kb.mp3)
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This will need ABOUT 50 sections....hopefully, no more (depending on the length of each section)
I think it will be necessary to make each year into a "section".
I've started the MW and find there are a few extra rows at the end...which is FINE...since, it's POSSIBLE that some years might end up being "part one" and "Part two"
first correction!!
It appears that this book only goes to 1881!!!
So, for now, we can just leave the MW as is!!!
but get rid of the rows after 1881, when we get close to finishing