Take Courage (63 page)

ALL THE CHARACTERS in this novel are real people, revived from the pages of Yorkshire history to enact again their significant drama of love and strife, human strength and human weakness. If I have sometimes deepened the lines, and supplied the gaps, of this story of England's Civil War, from my own invention, that is the novelist's privilege: to create a symbolic unity from scattered hints and dispersed incidents.

PHYLLIS BENTLEY

Halifax

March
, 1938–
October
, 1939

This electronic edition published in 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader

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ISBN: 9781448204328
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