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Clare Leighton was one of the most prolific and highly regarded
wood engravers of her time, leaving behind a body of work that
reflected her rural life in Britain and North America. During the
1930s, as the world around her became increasingly technological,
industrial, and urban, Leighton portrayed rural men and women and
the ancient methods they used to work the land that would soon
vanish forever. Her two best-loved publications, The Farmer’s
Year and Four Hedges, reflect this passion for the British
countryside. Less well known are her books illustrating and
describing rural life in the United States of America, where she
emigrated and became a naturalized citizen in 1945, including
Southern Harvest and Where Land Meets Sea: The Tide Line of Cape
Cod. Leighton also spent time in Canada with the logging community,
winning the respect of Canadian lumberjacks by adopting their way
of life. Her wood engravings depicting lumberjacks in the
snow-covered forests of Canada are some of her most evocative
prints. This lavish anthology includes beautifully reproduced
extracts and a detailed introduction to the artist’s life and
work, reflecting Leighton’s lifelong fascination with the virtues
of the countryside and the people who worked the land.
Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth
century. In the 1930s, when she settled in the countryside with her
long-term partner, the political journalist Henry Noel Brailsford,
she turned her creativity to the land. Gardening became her
passion. Her obsession. This is the story of the garden she carved
from meadowland deep in the Chiltern Hills. 'Phrases and images
fill you with delight . . . This is the most honest writing I've
ever read '--Carol Klein.
Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the
"ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern
Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European
traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek
myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of
telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and
early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A
Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a
Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Swans. "The
Fellow That Married A Dozen Times" is a lively rendition of
"Bluebeard." As the narrators cautioned Marie Campbell again and
again, "Tale-telling is nigh about faded out in the mountain
country," but "Tales from the Cloud Walking Country" offers a
lasting record of history, cultural heritage, language, and good
old-fashioned fun.
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