Jekyll admired von Arnim & they met to discuss gardens

Fabulous new course on Literary Gardens, live online with Karina Jakubowicz.

We study Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, The Garden Party, Elizabeth and her German Garden, and more. May-June 2024.

literaturecambridge.co.uk/gardens-2024

#woolf
The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society

As we eagerly anticipate the longlist for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, we take a moment to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the past four years' winners. Their journeys since claiming the prize have been truly inspirational! #LucyCavFictionPrize #WritersCommunity

There's a week when the coastal forest between Skallevold and Åsgårdstrand lights up with #anemones : 'All the radiance of #April lay gathered together at her feet... She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it ' (Elizabeth von Arnim) 🌿

Wonderful. Elizabeth von Arnim, accomplished & recognised musician, was great friends with Smyth & considered her ‘the perfect woman’

“Walked to Chathill Station: a cartwheel, a rainbow, new boots, and at Chathill the sailor boy who had been catching crabs. A very happy day indeed.”
E.M. Forster, 8 April 1904

#emforster

'She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over and has no part or lot in life for the next six months. Oh, the joy that the #spring is here! What a resurrection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.'

Elizabeth von Arnim (1898)

Fabulous new course on Literary Gardens, live online with Karina Jakubowicz.

We study Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, The Garden Party, Elizabeth and her German Garden, and more. May-June 2024.

literaturecambridge.co.uk/gardens-2024
KATHERINE MANSFIELD The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society

Another visit to Charleston farmhouse with its exquisite interiors & beautiful gardens. Atmospheric

Auriculas have a long history behind them. It is suggested that they may have been known to the Romans as a plant whose native home was the Alps. #gardening thecaley.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society German Garden in January 2024

Includes a lecture & discussion of Elizabeth von Arnim’s ‘Elizabeth & her German Garden’

📚Delve deep into the mind of the 70s and discover the secret history of what we now call wellness in #GirtonFellow , Dr James Riley's new book, #WellBeings  out now!

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Finally visited Castello Brown, Portofino, site of ⁦The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society⁩ hol & novel ‘The Enchanted April’. There was wisteria 😊 & the castle now has a gifted copy of ⁦Oxford Classics⁩ centenary edition (which I was lucky enough to edit). A magical day ‘wisteria & sunshine’

Shortly after 9:30pm on Friday, 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie got up from her armchair and climbed the stairs of her Berkshire home.

She kissed her sleeping daughter Rosalind, aged seven, goodnight and returned downstairs again.

Then she climbed into her Morris

My third garden is the sort of garden I like best. It is a #cottage garden of the best sort, kept by a true #gardener . #gardening
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“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.”
Lytton Strachey, born 1 March 1880

#lyttonstrachey #bloomsbury #historians

March ‘47 There are several kinds of hellebore, but the two varieties usually seen in English gardens are more familiar under their prettier names of Christmas rose and Lenten rose, Helleborus niger and Helleborus orientalis [H. x hybridus] respectively.
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🌟 This International Women’s Day, join us for a whole host of events celebrating Jane Austen and the women she knew and loved, including special Guided Tours of the House, and exciting online events!

We hope to see you there!
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