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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...

Nine days earlier she had written that she had still some kick in me. The cause of her death was listed as acute bronchitis, myocarditis, and carcinoma of uterus. Today the National Trust

Leslie Linder bequeathed his extensive collection of BP 's papers, paintings, and first editions to the National Trust . The trust holds its Potter manuscripts at Near Sawrey in the Lake District; others are...

This too she dedicated to, and in reproof of, her husband , calling him her sailing partner and recalling some words he had used about her, which in the novel she puts in the mouth...

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.

VSW was a lecturer and broadcaster for the BBC as well as a hard-working and prolific journalist. She has a place in any list of influential English gardeners, developing further some of the...

When in 1954 Nigel proposed passing Sissinghurst to the National Trust , VSWsaid Never never never. Au grand jamais, jamais. . . . Over my corpse or my ashes; not otherwise. The buildings...

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 .

Maxwell Armfield 's frontispiece to Commoners' Rights, 1912, shows Chippingdun, the book's fictional version of Minchinhampton. His later illustrations also show the town or its beautiful surroundings. The work is dedicated to...

Having considered but not chosen Ireland, the Smith family were still unsettled. Elizabeth wrote in September 1797 from Bath that they planned to settle somewhere in a cheap and romantic country. My Father says Ireland...

After Craig's death, Sackville-West provided financial assistance to the very poor CSJ and Tony Atwood (who was then over eighty). The money was enough to cover their living expenses until negotiations with the National Trust

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.

JT left an astonishing estate of close to £25,000. She willed the bulk of this to the National Trust , with particular bequests to her sister Moire and to the Inverness Museum.

The author took great care to arrange for the publication of work that her unexpected and premature death had left in manuscript. Proceeds from this book and others published after her death went...

JT came from a Scottish family that was rising socially. Her father was a greengrocer and her mother was the daughter of a joiner; each had known poverty as a child. Her two pseudonyms, one...