Spirits of place
Subtitle: five famous lives in their landscape
By: Jane Brown.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Homes and haunts -- England; Forster, E. M. 1879-1970 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Hertfordshire; Brooke, Rupert, 1887-1915 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Cambridgeshire; Hartley, L. P. 1895-1972 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Norfolk; Carrington, Dora de Houghton, 1893-1932 -- Homes and haunts; Literary landmarks -- England; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Landscape in literature; Landscape -- England; England -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; England -- In literature
Description: "In Spirits of Place Jane Brown has chosen five famous people whose love of English rural landscape informed their work with a startling intensity. Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Rupert Brooke, Dora Carrington and L.P. Hartley all had a passion for special places that contributed to their development as artists and which formed the foundations of their lives." "In considering these personal landscapes Jane Brown brings alive the places of their affections. For E.M. Forster this was epitomized by his home, Rooksnest, which became the model for his famous Howards End. Rupert Brooke, son of a Rugby schoolmaster, was a product of the clipped quadrangles of Cambridge and immortalized the meadows at Grantchester. L.P. Hartley's holidays in Norfolk coloured his novels though he rejected his native Fens. Virginia Woolf found inspiration in her memories from childhood, reinventing the magic of the Cornish coast in her novels while living on the rolling green hills of the Sussex Downs."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-302) and index.