Literary Gardens
the imaginary gardens of writers and poets
$39.15
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2025
Summary
Escape into Literary Gardens: A Journey Through Imagined Eden
Writers have been inventing and imagining gardens for centuries, crafting them as symbols of paradise and desire, stages for romance and debauchery, and realms for adventure and escape.
This book celebrates literature’s most enchanting gardens, reimagining them with beautiful artworks. Find comfort in the nostalgic gardens of your childhood with tales like The Secret Garden and Alice’s Adventures In W…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836002208 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1836002203 |
| Author: | Sandra Lawrence, Lucille Clerc |
| Publisher: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Frances Lincoln |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 170mm |
About The Author
Sandra Lawrence
Sandra Lawrence is an author and journalist who has written about gardens for, among others, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, English Garden, LandScape, Garden News, Modern Gardens, Hortus and British Heritage. Her seventeen books include The Witch’s Garden (2019), The Magic of Mushrooms (2022) and Anthology of Amazing Women (2018). She is also the author of Miss Willmott’s Ghosts (2022), a biography of Edwardian plantswoman Ellen Ann Willmott, whose ruined garden fuelled Sandra’s own childhood fantasies of treasure hunting in lost gardens.
Lucille Clerc is a French illustrator based in London. She mainly works in editorial design and book illustration and sometimes designs interior and exhibition spaces. Her work is inspired by the natural world and the streets and architecture of London.
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