Front matter

This etext was transcribed by Les Bowler

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

In a North Country Village

The Story of Dan

A Daughter of the Soil

Maime o’ the Corner

Frieze and Fustian

Among the Untrodden Ways

Miss Erin

The Duenna of a Genius

Yeoman Fleetwood

Fiander’s Widow

The Manor Farm

Christian Thal

Lychgate Hall

Dorset Dear

Wild Wheat

Simple Annals

STEPPING WESTWARD

BY

M. E. FRANCIS

(Mrs FRANCIS BLUNDELL)

METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON

First Published in 1907

TO MY DEAR FRIEND ELINOR, LADY D’OYLY KNOWN AND BELOVED BY DORSET FOLK OF ALL GRADES, AND ALL AGES

“Write me as one who loves his fellow-men.”