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Letters from Bishopsbourne - Three Writers in an English Village (Hardcover)
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Letters from Bishopsbourne - Three Writers in an English Village (Hardcover)
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Letters from Bishopsbourne is a collective biography of three of
the most distinguished stylists writing in the English language,
who lived and died in the small village of Bishopsbourne just south
of Canterbury in Kent: Richard Hooker (1554-1600), the theologian
whose major work. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, provided
the philosophical underpinning of the Elizabethan Anglican
settlement; the celebrated author Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) who
wrote his last novels there; and Jocelyn Brooke (1908-1966), the
Proustian author of the 'orchid' trilogy which shot him to fame in
the late 1940s. The book recounts their life of action before
coming to the village in search of rural peace, and the challenges
they faced after settling there. All three died in the village
relatively young, frustrated by life and literature: Hooker because
the last three books of his great work were politically
controversial and his friends would not allow him to publish;
Conrad because he was completely written out and struggled to
produce even sub-standard work; and Brooke, after his short-lived
success, because the publishing world had turned against him,
refusing to handle his final works. The book provides a completely
novel topographical context for each of the writers. Other
celebrated inhabitants appear upon the scene, including the film
director, Michael Powell, born nearby, the writer Alec Waugh, a
cricket and golf enthusiast, and the eccentric cricketing patron,
Sir Horace Mann, who for 25 years of the 18th century turned the
village's great house into the fulcrum of English cricket.
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