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 color the gardens in which
these writers spent their time.
