One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
Parson James Woodforde (1740-1803)
'I dreamt last Night that I went to Weston Church with a corpse after me, and just as I came to the Church Yard Gate, saw another... which had died of the small Pox... When I returned to the Chancel, I thought I saw a most elegant dinner served up - particularly fish.'
That the name of Parson James Woodforde should become so well known in literature today would certainly have astonished this ordinary and unexceptional man. As rector of Weston Longville, most of the major events of the century seem to have passed him by, but the beauty of his Diary (first published in a much-edited form in 1924) lies in its unspectacular, often humorous day-to-day detail of everyday Norfolk life. Packed with daily routine, especially of food and drink, the understated, unpretentious period charm of Woodforde's writing makes for an unusual but worthy bestseller.
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