The Fine Companion
The Journal of a Caravan Trip from Oxford to Stratford-Upon-Avon in the Summer of 1914
Author
Hilary Clare, editor
Publisher
The EJO Society, Romsey, 2011
Printing Details
First edition. Paperback. 21 × 15cm, 118pp.
The story of a caravan trip during the summer of 1914 when D C Daking—‘The Pixie’—and some of her friends went to Stratford upon Avon. The book includes the full text of Daking’s diary of the trip ‘The Log of the Fine Companion’, with additional notes and biographical information about Daking and her companions researched and written by Hilary Clare.
The book is strong on folk dancing, and the appendices include The Cotefield Fete; The foundation and early years of the English Folk Dancing Society; and Early revival folk-dancing in Oxford.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition.
ISBN
9780956783400