I'd like to suggest the works of George Sturt (pseudonym George Bourne) - born 1863, died 1927
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sturt
He wrote a number of books about country life and crafts, of which the most popular is The Wheelwright's Shop. I've marked with an asterisk the ones that are on archive.org. Don't use the George Bourne pseudonym for searching, as there's at least one other author with that name.
The Bettesworth Book: Talks with a Surrey Peasant (1901) *
Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth (1907) *
The Ascending Effort (1910)
Change in the Village (1912) *
Lucy Bettesworth (1913)
William Smith, Potter and Farmer: 1790-1858 (1919) *
A Farmer's Life, with a Memoir of the Farmer's Sister (1922) *
The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) *
[and A Small Boy in the Sixties, which is still in copyright]
Peter