Shakespeare's Gardens
$47.99
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2021
Summary
Shakespeare’s Gardens is a highly illustrated, informative book about the gardens that William Shakespeare knew as a boy and tended as a man, published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of his death in April 2016. This anniversary will be the focus of literary celebration of the life and work throughout the English speaking world and beyond.
The book will focus on the gardens that Shakespeare knew, including the five gardens in Stratford upon Avon in which he gardened an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780711256989 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0711256985 |
| Author: | Jackie Bennett, ANDREW LAWSON, Jackie Shakespeare Birthplace Trust |
| Publisher: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Frances Lincoln |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.24kg |
| Dimensions: | 270mm x 227mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as titles such as Marta McDowell’s
“This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as titles such as Marta McDowell’s Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life and Kim Wilson’s In the Garden with Jane Austen appealed to readers interested in gardening history.”
“a true celebration and exploration into a central part of [Shakespeare’s] family life and private world”
“brush up your understanding of Elizabethan plants and gardening in this beautifully illustrated tour of Shakespeare’s gardens”
“This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as titles such as Marta McDowell’s Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life and Kim Wilson’s In the Garden with Jane Austen appealed to readers interested in gardening history.”
“a true celebration and exploration into a central part of [Shakespeare’s] family life and private world”
“brush up your understanding of Elizabethan plants and gardening in this beautifully illustrated tour of Shakespeare’s gardens”
‘the best of coffee table books: as well as looking beautiful it’s a fascinating read…it’s part biography, part social history, part present-day gardening guide. As Will, fond of a horticultural reference, would have said: “Here’s flowers for you…” ‘
‘The best of coffee table books: as well as looking beautiful it’s a fascinating read…it’s part biography, part social history, part present-day gardening guide. As Will, fond of a horticultural reference, would have said: “Here’s flowers for you…” ’ * Cambridge News *
“This will find a wider audience than Shakespeare fans, just as titles such as Marta McDowell’s Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life and Kim Wilson’s In the Garden with Jane Austen appealed to readers interested in gardening history.”
* Library Journal *‘High quality photography and an attractive design make this a fine coffee table book - though it’s much more than that! It’s a celebration that’s a bit different from all the other books, as as Will himself once wrote, ‘Here’s flowers for you’…’ * Four Shires Magazine *
‘Jackie Bennett takes an interesting angle… A handsome book with wonderful photographs by Andrew Lawson’ * The World of Interiors *
About The Author
Jackie Bennett
Jackie Bennett
Jackie Bennett is a former editor of The Garden Design Journal, English Garden Magazine, and Gardening with the National Trust. She began her career in television, producing gardening and natural history programmes before becoming a full-time writer. In 1990, she won an award for nature writing in the BBC Wildlife Magazine Awards.
Her books include:
- The Wildlife Garden Month by Month (David & Charles, 1990 - reissued in 2011)
- The Cottage Garden
- Wild About the Garden (1997 - a Channel 4 tie-in book for the TV series presented by Carol Klein)
She won the Garden Writer’s Guild Gardening Column of the Year in 2009 for a series about her own Norfolk garden. Jackie has studied garden design and landscape history. She runs writing workshops for the Society of Garden Designers and for the Cambridge and Oxford Botanic Gardens.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson is widely regarded as England’s leading garden photographer. He has provided photographs for many books, including:
- Good Planting by Rosemary Verey
- Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening
- Designing Gardens by Arabella Lennox Boyd
- Little Sparta by Jessie Sheeler
- The Garden at Highgrove by HRH Prince of Wales
- The English Garden by Ursula Buchan
- The New English Garden by Tim Richardson
He holds the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gold Medal for Photography and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Garden Writer’s Guild. His garden in Oxfordshire is open under the National Gardens Scheme.
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