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Son of The Secret Gardener - Trevor Millum

Son of The Secret Gardener

The story of the real-life gardener behind The Secret Garden

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
134 Seiten
2022
Quadrant Books (Verlag)
978-1-86151-993-1 (ISBN)
CHF 20,95 inkl. MwSt
Trevor Millum's grandfather, George, was gardener to Frances Burnett, author of the children's classic The Secret Garden; the garden he tended, her home, was inspiration for the book, and George was the model for the gardener. The authors father kept diaries of his work, now published for the first time in this unusual, colourful, absorbing book.
This story has its roots in the life of George Owen Millum, who at the turn of the 19th century was the head gardener at Maytham Hall in Kent, the home of Frances Hodgson Burnett, long celebrated for her timeless classic The Secret Garden. The garden in the story was based upon that at Maytham Hall, and George Millum was the model for Ben Weatherstaff, Frances Hodgson Burnett's fictional gardener. George's son, George Charles Millum, who like his father was born in the gardener's cottage at Maytham, also grew up to be a country house gardener - hence the title of this book, written and compiled by his own son with detailed extracts from his diaries.

Dr Trevor Millum FRSA: Teacher and Head of English; Director of the National Association for the Teaching of English; creative practitioner and manager for Creative Partnerships; now freelance writer, editor and consultant - and gardener.

Introduction: a life in gardening 1
The American writer and the English garden 3
George Charles Millum, Son of The Secret Gardener 15
Promotion and marriage 27
The diary for 1935 30
The war years and beyond 70
A new position 76
The diary for 1949 80
Epilogue 117
About the Author 118
Acknowledgement 119

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 99 colour and black and white pictures and illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 217 mm
Gewicht 250 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Garten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10 1-86151-993-1 / 1861519931
ISBN-13 978-1-86151-993-1 / 9781861519931
Zustand Neuware
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