National Trust

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

Poems are included here from several groups. Verses for the Middle-aged (collected later for separate publication as Rhymes for Middle Years) is a collection of absurdities: England (about the image of the country as...

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...

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...

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...

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.