The Writer's Garden

Great things happen in gardens. No one can doubt the importance of the garden in Roald Dahl's life as it was here where he worked, and here that he created James and the Giant Peach. And where would Jane Austen have been if she had never seen a 'walk', an ornamental lake, or a wilderness? Gardens ho [...]
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Great things happen in gardens. No one can doubt the importance of the garden in Roald Dahl's life as it was here where he worked, and here that he created James and the Giant Peach. And where would Jane Austen have been if she had never seen a 'walk', an ornamental lake, or a wilderness? Gardens hold a special place in many author's lives. For Beatrix Potter, Hill Top house was made possible by the new found freedom and wealth that a literary career can bring; for Sir Walter Scott, laying out his garden at Abbotsford was a way of distracting himself from mounting debts. In this book of 18 gardens and 20 writers, the author examines how the poet, writer, novelist derived a creative spirit from their private garden, how they tended and enjoyed their gardens, and how they managed their outdoor space.Jane Austen at Godmersham and Chawton 10 Rupert Brooke at Grantchester 20 John Ruskin at Brantwood 28 Agatha Christie at Greenway 36 Beatrix Potter at Hill Top 44 Roald Dahl at Gipsy House 54 Charles Dickens at Gad's Hill Place 62 Virginia Woolf at Monk's House 68 Winston Churchill at Chartwell 76 Laurence Sterne at Shandy Hall 84 George Bernard Shaw at Shaw's Corner 92 Ted Hughes at Lumb Bank 98 Henry James followed by E.F.Benson at Lamb House 106 John Clare at Helpston 114 Thomas Hardy at Hardy's Cottage and Max Gate 120 Robert Burns at Ellisland 130 William Wordsworth at Cockermouth and Grasmere 138 Walter Scott at Abbotsford 148 Rudyard Kipling at Bateman's 158