In the Garden with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson

The firm they founded is now the oldest and. Jane Austen’s enduring legacy is the final chapter of this beautiful and eye-opening book. In the spring of 1923, William Warder Norton and Mary Dows Herter Norton decided to pursue a passion project.

Author Kim Wilson strolls through the sorts of gardens. Author Kim Wilson ties Austen’s novels to places where she lived, visited, and even attended school, ending with her final months in temporary lodgings in Winchester, England. She took a keen interest in flower gardening and kitchen gardening alike. With gorgeous photography and illustrations, At Home with Jane Austen explores Austen’s world, her physical surroundings, and the journeys the popular author took during her lifetime. This book strolls through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have known and visited: the gardens of the great estates, cottage gardens, gardens in town. This book strolls through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have. Author Kim Wilson must be a Fanny Price too, sensitive and observant to natures beauty as her new book In the Garden With Jane Austen is a verdurous delight, introducing us to Austen’s affinity to nature through the gardens she would have experienced in her own homes, family members and public gardens of Georgian and Regency England. She wrote most everywhere she traveled, accompanied by her portable writing desk. Jane Austen took a keen interest in flower gardening and kitchen gardening alike. A regular visitor to London, to the seashore for holidays, and to the estates of friends and relatives, Jane carried her own notion of home with her wherever she went and drew inspiration for her brilliantly witty novels from every new experience. “I shall be very glad to see you at home again, and then…who will be so happy as we?”-Jane Austenįrom her youth in a country rectory in Steventon, a small village in Hampshire, England-where she wrote her first stories for her friends, Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third-to the fashionable spa town of Bath, to the seaport of Southampton, to her final years in her last settled home at peaceful Chawton Cottage, where she penned her most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s life was hardly that of a shut in. It’s one of many captured in Kim Wilson’s book, In the Garden with Jane Austen. Tour the homes and settings of Jane Austen, one of the most widely read and beloved authors in English literature, in this beautiful book featuring over 100 color photographs and illustrations.

In the Garden with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson