George Sturt who also wrote under the pseudonym George Bourne, was an English

England

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 writer on rural crafts and affairs. He was born and grew up in Farnham

Farnham

Farnham is a town in Surrey, England, within the Borough of Waverley. The town is situated some 42 miles southwest of London in the extreme west of Surrey, adjacent to the border with Hampshire...

, Surrey.

Sturt was a grammar school

Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...

 teacher until 1894 when his father died, after which he took over and ran the family wheelwright shop in Farnham, where he continued to live for the rest of his life.

He wrote numerous books and articles under the name George Bourne, including a novel.

Publications

• Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer (1907)
• William Smith, Farmer and Potter: 1790-1858 (1919)
• A Year's Exile (1898), his only published novel
• The Bettesworth book (1901)
• The Ascending Effort (1910)
• Change in the Village (1912)
• Lucy Bettesworth (1913)
• A Farmer's Life, with a Memor of the Farmer's Sister (1922)
• The Wheelwright's Shop (1923)
• A Small Boy in the Sixties (1927)

External links

• George Sturt Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
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