The writer's garden : how gardens inspired our best-loved authors
Bennett, Jackie2014
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Great things happen in gardens. No one reading Daphne du MauriersRebecca could doubt that the author herself had not lived with the huge bloodred rhododendrons that the heroine first sees on arrival at Manderley.
Main title:
The writer's garden : how gardens inspired our best-loved authors / Jackie Bennett ; photography by Richard Hanson
Author:
Imprint:
London : Frances Lincoln, 2014
Collation:
176 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Jane Austen at Godmersham and Chawton -- Rupert Brooke at Grantchester -- John Ruskin at Brantwood -- Agatha Christie at Greenway -- Beatrix Potter at Hill Top -- Roald Dahl at Gipsy House -- Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill Place -- Virginia Woolf at Monk's House -- Winston Churchill at Chartwell -- Laurence Sterne at Shandy Hall -- George Bernard Shaw at Shaw's Corner -- Ted Hughes at Lumb Bank -- Henry James followed by E.F. Benson at Lamb House -- John Clare at Helpston -- Thomas Hardy at Hardy's cottage and Max Gate -- Robert Burns at Ellisland -- William Wordsworth at Cockermouth and Grasmere -- Walter Scott at Abbotsford -- Rudyard Kipling at Bateman's.
ISBN:
9780711234949
Dewey class:
712.60942
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
288159
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden | 712.60942 BEN | Onloan - Due: 25 Oct 2024 |