The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory
Deborah Alun-Jones
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Description for The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory
Hardcover. Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. In this book, each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the effect it had on them. Num Pages: 208 pages, 75 illustrations, 12 in colour. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 664.
Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. For many, the Georgian rectory nestling against an historic church immediately evokes a scene from a Jane Austen novel, for others it conjures up something much darker, the parsonage at Haworth where the Brontë sisters were confined. In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult and from which ... Read more
Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. For many, the Georgian rectory nestling against an historic church immediately evokes a scene from a Jane Austen novel, for others it conjures up something much darker, the parsonage at Haworth where the Brontë sisters were confined. In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult and from which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500516775
SKU
9780500516775
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Ref
99-2
About Deborah Alun-Jones
Deborah Alun-Jones studied English at Cambridge University and is now a full time writer. Her previous books include Charming: The Magic of Charm Jewelry, also published by Thames & Hudson.
Reviews for The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory
'Charming and moving' - Daily Telegraph 'Generously and imaginatively illustrated … the pleasure of the book is in the wealth of detail … there will be something unfamiliar or intriguing here' - Penelope Lively, The Spectator 'Engaging, eclectic … generously and intelligently illustrated … Alun-Jones’s study aims not for comprehensiveness, but to tell good stories a bit off the beaten ... Read more