"May a plain country parson, who isn't used to lawyers in petticoats, be permitted to ask how you mean to do it?"

Due to its subject matter, it was widely assumed to be the work of a real-life country parson; one such even attempted to take the credit.

The daughter of a country parson is visited by ghosts.

Her father was only a poor country parson and when he died, she had to support herself and her mother, for there was no estate.

The youngest daughter of a poor country parson, she went to London at the age of twenty to look for work.

Without the invitation to sail on Beagle, Darwin would probably have become a country parson.

This meant that being an academic fellow could be a lifelong career rather than a stop gap between study and becoming a country parson.

He was the son of a 'squarson', a country parson who had the standing and habits of a squire.

Having called the warning, the good country parson tossed the contents of the basin.

Instead he married his first cousin in 1827 and became a country parson.