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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 Bronte 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 they drew inspiration. 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. The story is often heartwarming, with amateur theatricals and games of tennis, but in several cases it is a tale where the serene exterior belies the tensions within - but it was those very tensions that yielded some of our greatest poetry and literature.Product Identifiers
PublisherThames & Hudson LTD
ISBN-139780500516775
eBay Product ID (ePID)139719202
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicLiterature, History
GenreBiographies & True Stories
TypeTextbook
AuthorDeborah Alun-Jones
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorDeborah Alun-Jones