An English Garden in Provence

First Edition. 208 pp. Blue hardcover with paper title label to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Minimal marks to boards; internally clean and bright, binding firm. Colour photographs throughout by Stephen Spender and Jean-Marie del Moral. 1860465145

From Publisher:

At a young age Natasha Spender came into contact with the renowned gardens of such literary figures as Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, and Michael Astor. In the 1960s she and her husband, the poet Sir Stephen Spender, acquired the ruins of a farmhouse enclosed in the dramatic skyline of the Alpilles. After years of hard work the result was a unique garden. Lady Spender s gardening friendships with the locals and neighbors, the regular and inspiring visits of friends such as John Bayley and Iris Murdoch, Francis Bacon, and the Annans, her explorations of the surrounding landscape, and passages from Stephen Spender s unpublished journals, all contribute to this enchanting book. It is both a record of the creation of a beautiful garden in the arid hills of Provence, and a treasure trove for devoted gardeners."

Product Info

ISBN: 1860465145

ISBN-13: 9781860465147

Publisher: The Harvill Press 1999

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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