Jackie Bennett (former
editor of The Garden Design Journal) offers
an intimate glimpse into the country homes and gardens of notable, accomplished
British poets, essayists and novelists in The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired our best-loved authors.
This coffee table book examines the lives of nineteen, diversely accomplished British
writers and how their private residences facilitated their work: Virginia Woolf wandered the room-like gardens at Monk's House while she labored
over Mrs.
Dalloway. Charles Dickens tended daily to the gardens at Gad's Hill Place
before tackling masterpieces like Great
Expectations. The woodland paths and boathouse at Greenway inspired Agatha
Christie's Dead
Man's Folly. And would there have ever been a James
and the Giant Peach had Roald Dahl not studied his own fruit orchard
and crawly creatures in the gardens at Gipsy House?
Archival images and vivid landscape photographs
by Richard Hanson accompany the
profiles and enhance each intimate glimpse into the countryside sanctuaries
that fed the imaginations of great writers. "Written in Residence"
sidebars offer lists of works created at each locale, and epilogues explain
what became of the homes and gardens after the death of each revered wordsmith.
(Photographs by Richard
Hanson)
Publication Date: November 1, 2014
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