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  • noun United States writer (born in England) who wrote on American culture (1917-1996)
  • noun English writer of comic novels (1904-1973)

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Examples

  • Father Tim and Cynthia's good-bye to their friends in Mitford is long and painful.

    A New Song by Jan Karon: Questions 1999

  • But what hand of Providence brought me to download At Home in Mitford, the first of Jan Karon's novels about the mild-mannered Episcopalian Father Tim and his flock in a cozy Blue Ridge Mountains hamlet?

    Archive 2009-05-01 Roger Sutton 2009

  • But what hand of Providence brought me to download At Home in Mitford, the first of Jan Karon's novels about the mild-mannered Episcopalian Father Tim and his flock in a cozy Blue Ridge Mountains hamlet?

    My new secret boyfriend Roger Sutton 2009

  • In the first book, At Home in Mitford, he lived a very quiet life.

    An Interview with Linda Kahn 2010

  • Mitford is packed with delightful characters like Dooley, Miss Rose,

    An Interview with Linda Kahn 2010

  • When Hartington was killed, in Belgium in September 1944, the dukedom passed to his younger brother, Andrew (whose widow, Deborah Mitford, is now the last survivor of the most astonishing set of English sisters since the Brontës).

    Feckless Youth 2006

  • When Hartington was killed, in Belgium in September 1944, the dukedom passed to his younger brother, Andrew (whose widow, Deborah Mitford, is now the last survivor of the most astonishing set of English sisters since the Brontës).

    Feckless Youth 2006

  • When Hartington was killed, in Belgium in September 1944, the dukedom passed to his younger brother, Andrew (whose widow, Deborah Mitford, is now the last survivor of the most astonishing set of English sisters since the Brontës).

    Feckless Youth 2006

  • At Home in Mitford (because I will force myself) 5.

    More Days of Our Lives Rambling rabid1st 2004

  • Fans will be delighted to find that this installment of the series is full of the engaging descriptions and charming depiction of life in Mitford that first won Karon the loyalty of legions of readers.

    In This Mountain: Summary and book reviews of In This Mountain by Jan Karon. 2002

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