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
in Kent and Hampshire,
Agatha Christie
in Devon,
Beatrix Potter
in the Lake District,
Thomas Hardy
in Dorset,
Walter Scott
Robert Burns
in Scotland,
William Wordsworth
in Cumbria,
Virginia Woolf
Rudyard Kipling
in Sussex,
Frances Hodgson Burnett
in Kent,
Jack London
in California,
Edward James
in Mexico,
Jean Cocteau
George Sand
in France and
Goethe
in Germany.
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.