Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Emilie Barrington | |
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) |
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... |
Travel | Agatha Christie | A year or so before war broke out, AC
and her husband bought a country house in Devon as a holiday escape from their other homes in Oxfordshire and London. This was Greenway at... |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | The Bookseller magazine announced in June 2009 the expected appearance (which duly followed the same year) of AC
's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, based by the self-confessed Christie arch-fan... |
Travel | John Dryden | The family estate of the Drydens (held by the poet's grandfather but not inherited by his father) was at Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire (now owned by the National Trust
and open to the public). The... |
Textual Production | Carol Ann Duffy | As public poet rather than laureate, she has contributed, for instance, to publicizing the National Trust
's competition for countryside poems. Her poem Moniack Mhor (inspired by time spent at the Scottish Writers' Centre
,... |
Residence | Rumer Godden | RG
moved to a different address in Rye: to Lamb House, the former home of Henry James
, a National Trust
house to which she came by invitation. Simpson, Hassell A. Rumer Godden. Twayne. 12, 29 |
Residence | Henry James | After his humiliating experience on stage at the opening of his play Guy Domville on 5 January 1895, he withdrew from London to Rye in Sussex, where he rented and eventually bought Lamb House... |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Edna Lyall | One of her latest charitable donations was for the purchase of Brandelhow near Crosthwaite (a wood which was otherwise to be cleared for housing development) for what became the National Trust
. Brandelhow, acquired in... |
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 |
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... |
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 |