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Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was one of the most remarkable,
significant and colourful figures in seventeenth-century England.
Whilst there has been regular, if often cursory, scholarly interest
in his activities as Licenser and Stuart apologist, this is the
first sustained book-length study of the man for almost a century.
L'Estrange's engagement on the Royalist side during the Civil war,
and his energetic pamphleteering for the return of the King in the
months preceding the Restoration earned him a reputation as one of
the most radical royalist apologists. As Licenser for the Press
under Charles II, he was charged with preventing the printing and
publication of dissenting writings; his additional role as Surveyor
of the Press authorised him to search the premises of printers and
booksellers on the mere suspicion of such activity. He was also a
tireless pamphleteer, journalist, and controversialist in the
conformist cause, all of which made him the bAte noire of Whigs and
non-conformists. This collection of essays by leading scholars of
the period highlights the instrumental role L'Estrange played in
the shaping of the political, literary, and print cultures of the
Restoration period. Taking an interdisciplinary approach the volume
covers all the major aspects of his career, as well as situating
them in their broader historical and literary context. By examining
his career in this way the book offers insights that will prove of
worth to political, social, religious and cultural historians, as
well as those interested in seventeenth-century literary and book
history.
What do you do when you find yourself living as a stranger? When
Beth Lynch moved to Switzerland, she quickly realised that the
sheer will to connect with people would not guarantee a happy
relocation. Out of place and lonely, Beth knows that she needs to
get her hands dirty if she is to put down roots. And so she sets
about making herself at home in the way she knows best - by tending
a garden, growing things. The search for a garden takes her across
the country, through meadows and on mountain paths where familiar
garden plants run wild, to the rugged hills of the Swiss Jura. In
this remote and unfamiliar place of glow worms and dormice and
singing toads she learns to garden in a new way, taking her cue
from the natural world. As she plants her paradise with hellebores
and aquilegias, cornflowers and Japanese anemones, these cherished
species forge green and deepening connections: to her new soil, to
her old life in England, and to her deceased parents, whose Sussex
garden continues to flourish in her heart. WHERE THE HORNBEAM GROWS
is a memoir about carrying a garden inwardly through loss,
dislocation and relocation, about finding a sense of wellbeing in a
green place of your own, and about the limits of paradise in a
peopled world. It is a powerful exploration by a dazzling new
literary voice of how, in nurturing a corner of the natural world,
we ourselves are nurtured.
'Beth Lynch's subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of
finding and making a place for oneself in the world; the effort of
putting down roots, the pain of tearing them up again, and how one
grows to know another person or another landscape. Horticulture and
human feelings twine together here - and what flourishes in the
several gardens of this book is, in the end, hope' ROBERT
MACFARLANE 'I loved Beth Lynch's tender, wise meditation on grief,
home, and the restorative magic of making a garden' OLIVIA LAING
Out of place and lonely after a relocation to Switzerland, Beth
Lynch realises that she needs to get her hands dirty if she is to
put down roots. And so she sets about making herself at home in the
way she knows best - by tending a garden, growing things. The
search for a garden takes her across the country, through meadows
and on mountain paths where familiar garden plants run wild, to the
rugged hills of the Swiss Jura where she begins to plant her
paradise. WHERE THE HORNBEAM GROWS is a memoir about carrying a
garden inwardly through loss, dislocation and relocation, about
finding a sense of wellbeing in a green place of one's own, and
about the limits of paradise in a peopled world. It is a powerful
exploration of how, in nurturing a corner of the natural world, we
ourselves are nurtured.
What do you do when you find yourself living as a stranger? When
Beth Lynch moved to Switzerland, she quickly realised that the
sheer will to connect with people would not guarantee a happy
relocation. Out of place and lonely, Beth knows that she needs to
get her hands dirty if she is to put down roots. And so she sets
about making herself at home in the way she knows best - by tending
a garden, growing things. The search for a garden takes her across
the country, through meadows and on mountain paths where familiar
garden plants run wild, to the rugged hills of the Swiss Jura. In
this remote and unfamiliar place of glow worms and dormice and
singing toads she learns to garden in a new way, taking her cue
from the natural world. As she plants her paradise with hellebores
and aquilegias, cornflowers and Japanese anemones, these cherished
species forge green and deepening connections: to her new soil, to
her old life in England, and to her deceased parents, whose Sussex
garden continues to flourish in her heart. WHERE THE HORNBEAM GROWS
is a memoir about carrying a garden inwardly through loss,
dislocation and relocation, about finding a sense of wellbeing in a
green place of your own, and about the limits of paradise in a
peopled world. It is a powerful exploration by a dazzling new
literary voice of how, in nurturing a corner of the natural world,
we ourselves are nurtured.
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