# The Writer's Garden: How Gardens Inspired the World's Great Authors - Hardcover

by **Jackie Bennett** (Author), **Richard Hanson** (Photographer)

**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** and **Robert Burns** in Scotland, **William Wordsworth** in Cumbria, **Virginia Woolf** and **Rudyard Kipling** in Sussex, **Frances Hodgson Burnett** in Kent, **Jack London** in California, **Edward James** in Mexico, **Jean Cocteau** and **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.

### Author Biography

**Jackie Bennett** has travelled widely, visiting and writing about gardens. Her books include _Shakespeare's Gardens_, _The Writer's Garden_, _Wild About the Garden_ and _Island Gardens_. She is a former editor of _The Garden Design Journal_ and _The English Garden_.

**Richard Hanson's** work has appeared in books and magazines and he has photographed in the gardens of well-known garden writers such as Helen Yemm, Ursula Buchan, Francine Raymond and Ronald Blythe. His photography has been featured in _The Garden Design Journal_, and _Gardening with the National Trust_.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 0.94 x 11.65 x 9.37 IN

**Publication Date:** September 26, 2023

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- **Price:** 40.0 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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