Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
322-3, 325-6
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Residence | Rudyard Kipling | In England in 1902 RK
bought a seventeenth-century house called Bateman's at Burwash in Sussex, which is now maintained by the National Trust
and is the place most closely connected with his name. He... |
Residence | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | |
Residence | William Morris | Morris sold the house in 1865 and moved closer to his work in London. Red House was privately owned until it was acquired by the National Trust
in January 2003 and later opened to the... |
Reception | Lady Arbella Stuart | In 2015 the National Trust
marked the four hundredth anniversary of her death by special features at Hardwick Hall to tell the story of her life. |
Publishing | Josephine Tey | The author took great care to arrange for the publication of work that her unexpected and premature death had left in manuscript. Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press. 322-3, 325-6 |
Publishing | Patricia Beer | PB
published Wessex: A National Trust
Book, with photographs by Fay Baldwin
. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
published her first book of advice to gardeners: Some Flowers. Long out of print by 1952, it was re-issued in association with the National Trust
in 1993. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 288 British Book News. British Council. (1952): 157 |
Occupation | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
became something of a recluse around the years of the Second World War. Nevertheless she played her part in local activities: the National Trust
and the Women's Institute
. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura. 225 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 350 |
Occupation | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | She laid out landscape gardens at Gibside, personally arranged the import of new plants from Africa, and had garden buildings such as an orangery constructed. The estate now belongs to the National Trust
. “Hourglass”. The National Trust Magazine, Vol. 95 , p. 18. 18 Friedell, Deborah. “But Stoney was Bold”. London Review of Books, Vol. 31 , No. 4, pp. 17-18. 17 |
Occupation | Beatrix Potter | BP
became a skilled and successful farmer and sheep-breeder. She bought her first Herdwick sheep (a local breed with coarse, weather-proof, greyish wool and melancholy white faces) in 1906, at a time when the price... |
Occupation | Emilie Barrington | |
Occupation | Angela Brazil | She also frequented Coventry girls' schools. Benefactions came together with conservation. In 1922 she bought, as a reserve for seagulls and primroses, a stretch of coast and cliffs between Polperro and Talland that was likely... |
Occupation | Vita Sackville-West | |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Yonge | CY
must have presented the Gibbses with her portrait: a previously unknown picture of her was discovered at Tyntesfield after the house was acquired by the National Trust
. Mitchell, Charlotte. “Any literary letters?”. The National Trust Magazine, Vol. 100 , pp. 85-7. 85 |
death | Beatrix Potter | BP
died, leaving the National Trust
Hill Top Farm and 5,000 acres of farmland which became the basis of the Trust's Lake District holdings. MacDonald, Ruth K. Beatrix Potter. Twayne. Chronology Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press. 308 |
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