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Title: All's Well
Alice's Victory

Author: Emily Sarah Holt

Illustrator: M. Lewin

Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21233]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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All's Well
Alice's Victory

By Emily Sarah Holt
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This book is set in the sixteenth century, at the beginning of the
Reformation. The action is in the Weald of Kent, a hugely forested area
that extended as far as Hampshire. The family at the centre of the
story had been converted to Protestantism, but still outwardly clung to
Catholicism. This meant that the local priest, through hearing
confessions, knew something of what was going on, and carried the
information to the Bishop. One of the younger women of the family had
been particularly advanced in her Protestant action and beliefs. She is
taken before the Bishop, and is condemned to jail, where she is very
badly treated, sleeping on straw, without change of clothing, and fed
only on bread and water. The place where she was kept was changed for
the better, after she had been brought for further interview before the
Bishop. But this was only because she was to be burnt alive, in the
manner of Holy Church of those days.

A moving story that makes a good audiobook, of little more than 7 hours'
duration. NH
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ALL'S WELL
ALICE'S VICTORY

BY EMILY SARAH HOLT

CHAPTER ONE.

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS.

"Give you good-morrow, neighbour! Whither away with that great fardel
[Bundle], prithee?"

"Truly, Mistress, home to Staplehurst, and the fardel holdeth broadcloth
for my lads' new jerkins." The speakers were two women, both on the
younger side of middle age, who met on the road between Staplehurst and
Cranbrook, the former coming towards Cranbrook and the latter from it.
They were in the midst of that rich and beautiful tract of country known
as the Weald of Kent, once the eastern part of the g