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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...

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.

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

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 .

After Watts 's former residence at Little Holland House was pulled down in 1875, it was EB who provided a long-term home at her own house for some of the frescoes with which Watts had...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

AO took up gardening as a suitable day job to combine with writing. Her mother's reputation no doubt helped her to secure work on many famous gardens. She apprenticed with the National Trust at Cliveden...

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 .

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.

PB published Wessex: A National Trust Book, with photographs by Fay Baldwin .

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...

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.