# The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant

Author: Wilson, A. J. (Alexander Johnstone), 1841-1921

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38136

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Life+of+Thomas+Wanless%2C+Peasant+Wilson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The grandfather of Thomas Wanless had been a small Warwickshire yeoman, whom the troublous times towards the latter end of the last century, family misfortunes, and the pressure of the large landowners, had combined to reduce in circumstances. His son Jacob had, therefore, found himself in the position of a day labourer on the farms around Ashbrook, raised above his fellow labourers only by the fact that he could sign his name, and that, through his wife, he owned a small freehold cottage with about a quarter of an acre of garden in the village. His unusual literary accomplishments, and his small possession did little to relieve him from the common miseries which pressed more or less on a...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-thomas-wanless-peasant-38136/chapters/21/index.md)