See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to
Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this
visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower
gardens, vegetable plots, landscapes and writing hideaways of 30
great authors – from Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Orchard House’
where she wrote Little Women and Agatha Christie at Greenway, to
Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House and the Massachusetts home of
Edith Wharton. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned
photography plus archive images, and spanning centuries and
continents, this book visits the homes and gardens that
inspired novelists, poets and playwrights. It shows how outdoor
spaces were important to writers in many different ways and offers
insight into the lives and creative processes of beloved authors.
Writers featured include: Jane Austen at Godmersham and Chawton,
Agatha Christie at Greenway, Beatrix Potter at Hill Top, Roald Dahl
at Gipsy House, Virginia Woolf at Monk’s House, Walter Scott,
Thomas Hardy at Hardy’s Cottage and Max Gate , Robert Burns at
Ellisland, William Wordsworth at Cockermouth and Grasmere, Rudyard
Kipling at Bateman’s, Louisa May Alcott at Orchard House, Emily
Dickinson at The Homestead, Amherst, Beatrix Farrand, Mount Desert
Island, Maine, Elizabeth Lawrence, Winghaven Gardens, F Scott
Fitzgerald in Montgomery, Robert Frost at Derry, Ernest Hemingway
in Florida, Jack London at Beauty Ranch and Wolf House, Henry David
Thoreau at Thoreau Farm & Walden Pond, Mark Twain at Hartford,
Alice Walker in Eatonton, Georgia, Marcel Proust, Illiers Combray,
Georges Sand, Nohant, Nr Chatelroux, Emile Zola, Medan South of
Paris, Herman Hesse, Casa Camuzzi, Lake Lugano, Weimer Group:
Goethe, Christoph Martin Wieland & Schiller, Alessandro
Manzoni, Milan + Lake Como, Tolstoy, Yasnay Polyana Estate, Moscow.
This deeply insightful book sheds new light on some of literature's
greatest works, offers rare glimpses into the lives of these
brilliant minds, and showcases in stunning full colour the gardens
in which these writers spent their time.
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