An English garden in Provence / Natasha Spender ; photographs by Stephen Spender and Jean-Marie del Moral.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spender, Natasha.

Contributor:

Moral, Jean-Marie del, 1952-

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens--France--Provence.

Gardens.

France--Provence.

Penn Provenance:

Azzolina, David S. 1957- (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 23 x 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Harvill, 1999.

Summary:

Natasha Spender came into contact at a young age with the renowned gardens of such literary figures as Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, and Michael Astor. In the 1960s, she and her husband acquired the ruins of a farmhouse enclosed in the dramatic skyline of the French Alpilles. After years of hard work, the result was a unique garden.

Lady Spender's recounting of her gardening friendships with the locals and many foreign neighbors; the regular and inspiring visits of Iris Murdoch, John Bayley, Francis Bacon, and the Annans, among others; and her explorations of the surrounding Landscape, along with passages from Sir Stephen Spender's unpublished journals, all contribute to make this both an enchanting literary record of the creation of a beautiful garden in the arid hills of Provence and a treasure trove for devoted gardeners.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Penn Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by David Azzolina.

ISBN:

1860465145

OCLC:

59384515