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Country Moods And Tenses
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Author : Edith Olivier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
Country Moods And Tenses written by Edith Olivier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with Country life categories.
Country Moods And Tenses
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Author : Edith Olivier
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Country Moods And Tenses written by Edith Olivier and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'. . . let the townsman say what he will, country life has more variety . . .' A contemporary of Cecil Beaton, Siegfried Sassoon and Rex Whistler, Edith Olivier is best known for her first book, the novella, The Love Child but was the author of a variety of both fiction and non-fiction, as well as becoming the mayor of Wilton, Wiltshire, in 1939. In this biographical memoir, written during the Second World War and subtitled 'A Non-Grammarian's Chapbook', Olivier takes the five grammatical moods - infinitive, imperative, indicative, subjunctive and conditional - and uses them to describe village and country life in her beloved Wiltshire as it was in 1941, the year of first publication. Covering a range of topics - from the folklore and traditions of the local area, to the weather and landscape itself - Edith Olivier's Country Moods and Tenses captures a moment and describes a world which has, in many ways, been lost to us.
Night Thoughts Of A Country Landlady
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Author : Edith Olivier
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Night Thoughts Of A Country Landlady written by Edith Olivier and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with Literary Collections categories.
"When the War drove her to fill the house with strange guests, it also drove her to fill her diary with strange thoughts... This broadened hospitality, and these unaccustomed contacts, completely changed for the time the character of English country life." In Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady, Edith Olivier explores the diaries left to her by her friend and neighbour, Miss Emma Nightingale. The account explores the arrival of both evacuees and soldiers to Miss Nightingale's village after the outbreak of World War II. Her musings on acting as a boarding house during this time are vivid and appealing chronicles of both rural life in World War II, and the varied and engaging individuals who were involved in this great struggle. This fascinating work is a record of the war as told through the people left behind in England to live their lives against its all-encompassing backdrop, and who did so with quiet contemplation and an overwhelming sense of hospitality.
A Curious Friendship
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Author : Anna Thomasson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-03-26
A Curious Friendship written by Anna Thomasson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
I loved A Curious Friendship. Anna Thomasson, in her first book, has brilliantly captured this strange coterie.' Sir Roy Strong The winter of 1924: Edith Olivier, alone for the first time at the age of 51, thought her life had come to an end. For Rex Whistler, a 19-year-old art student, life was just beginning. They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives. Gradually Edith's world opened up and she became a writer. Her home, the Daye House, in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate, became a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle: among them Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Tennant, William Walton, John Betjeman, the Sitwells and Cecil Beaton - for whom she was 'all the muses'. The story is set against the backdrop of a period that spanned the madcap parties of the 1920s, the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of the Second World War. With an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances, from the Royal Family to Tallulah Bankhead, Anna Thomasson's A Curious Friendship brings to life, for the first time, the curious, unlikely and fascinating friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing.
The Invention Of The English Landscape
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Author : Peter Borsay
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-27
The Invention Of The English Landscape written by Peter Borsay and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-27 with History categories.
Since at least the Reformation, English men and women have been engaged in visiting, exploring and portraying, in words and images, the landscape of their nation. The Invention of the English Landscape examines these journeys and investigations to explore how the natural and historic English landscape was reconfigured to become a widely enjoyed cultural and leisure resource. Peter Borsay considers the manifold forces behind this transformation, such as the rise of consumer culture, the media, industrial and transport revolutions, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Gothic revival. In doing so, he reveals the development of a powerful bond between landscape and natural identity, against the backdrop of social and political change from the early modern period to the start of the Second World War. Borsay's interdisciplinary approach demonstrates how human understandings of the natural world shaped the geography of England, and uncovers a wealth of valuable material, from novels and poems to paintings, that expose historical understandings of the landscape. This innovative approach illuminates how the English countryside and historic buildings became cultural icons behind which the nation was rallied during war-time, and explores the emergence of a post-war heritage industry that is now a definitive part of British cultural life.
Shadow Sites
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Author : Kitty Hauser
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-03-29
Shadow Sites written by Kitty Hauser and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-29 with History categories.
At certain times of the day - at sunrise, and sunset - the outlines of prehistoric fields, barrows and hill-forts in the British landscape may be thrown into relief. Such 'shadow sites', best seen from above, and captured by an airborne camera, are both examples of, and metaphors for, a particular way of seeing the landscape. At a time of rapid modernisation and urbanisation in mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into evocative interpretations of the landscape and looks at the affinities between photography as a medium to capture traces of the past as well as their absence.
Country Life Illustrated
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
Country Life Illustrated written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Country life categories.
Mary Butts And British Neo Romanticism
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Author : Andrew Radford
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Mary Butts And British Neo Romanticism written by Andrew Radford and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mary Butts was an important figure in inter-war modernist circles and one who reviewed and associated with some of the major literary figures of the era, from T.S. Eliot to Gertrude Stein. Despite her importance and the varied nature of her writing, she has been a neglected figure in modernist scholarship. Providing a new analysis of the interwar literary period, Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism revisits her work - vividly experimental writings spanning memoir, poetry, polemic and fiction - through the lens of mid-20th-century British neo-Romanticism. The book argues that behind Butts's eco-feminist writings lies an intricate political and philosophical commentary.
Fraser S Magazine For Town And Country
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Author : James Anthony Froude
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Fraser S Magazine For Town And Country written by James Anthony Froude and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.
The Kafirs Of Natal And The Zulu Country
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Author : Joseph Shooter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Kafirs Of Natal And The Zulu Country written by Joseph Shooter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Ethnology categories.