The Farmer's Wife a Comedy in Three Acts

The Farmer's Wife is a comedic play written by Eden Phillpotts, originally published in 1917. The play is set in the English countryside and follows the story of Samuel Sweetland, a widowed farmer who decides to remarry in order to find a new wife to take care of his home and family. Samuel's daughter, Mary, is opposed to the idea of her father remarrying and sets out to find a new wife for him herself. She enlists the help of her friend, Churdles Ash, a local postman, and together they set out to find the perfect candidate. The play is filled with humorous situations and misunderstandings as the characters navigate their way through the complexities of love and relationships. The themes of class, gender, and social expectations are also explored throughout the play. Overall, The Farmer's Wife is a charming and witty play that offers a humorous glimpse into the world of rural England in the early 20th century.1917. Eden Phillpotts, British novelist, poet, and dramatist, was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. The Farmer's Wife follows a widower who lives on a farm with his housekeeper and is combing the countryside in search of a wife, blind to the attachment his housekeeper has developed for him. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.