The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory
Alun-Jones, Deborah
Publication Date |
2013 |
ISBN |
9780500516775 |
Publisher |
Thames and Hudson |
Binding |
Hardback |
Condition |
Near fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket |
SKU |
24169 |
Notes |
Hint of rubbing to dust jacket edges else clean and neat. |
Description
Hardback. 208pp. Includes chapters on Sydney Smith at Foston, Alfred Tennyson at Somersby, Dorothy L. Sayers at Bluntisham, Rupert Brooke at Grantchester, John Betjeman at Farnborough, R. S. Thomas at Manafon, George Herbert and Vikram Seth at Bemerton, etc. 75 illustrations, 12 in colour. Illustrations include pictures by Eric Ravilious, Osbert Lancaster, Edward Hull, Edwin Landseer, M. E. Eldridge ( Mildred “Elsi” Eldridge, artist wife of R. S. Thomas) as well as many photographs of the people and places mentioned.
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