Posts Tagged ‘English authors’
The Gardener’s Pen: H. E. Bates and His Literary Landscape
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 26, 1905 On this day, the literary world welcomed Herbert Ernest Bates, a wordsmith destined to paint verdant landscapes with his pen. Known to readers as H. E. Bates, this English author…
Read MoreFrom Bluebells to Winter Roses: The Life of Anne Brontë
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 28, 1849 Dear reader, on this day in history, we bid farewell to a literary gem, the English novelist and poet Anne Brontë. While we now celebrate the Brontë sisters for their…
Read MoreDaphne du Maurier: Mysteries and Gardens in Literary Blooms
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 13, 1907 On this day, we celebrate the birth of the bewitching English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier (“Mor-ee-aya”), a lady of London lineage and a middle daughter in a celebrated…
Read MoreA. A. Milne: The Heart Behind Winnie-the-Pooh and the Magic of Ashdown Forest
The Inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh January 18, 1882 Today is the birthday of the English author, best known for his books about a teddy bear named Winnie-the-Pooh, Alan Alexander Milne. In 2015 the garden historian Kathryn Aalto wrote a book that explored the iconic landscape around Alan’s second home, Cotchford Farm in England. Surrounded by fields…
Read MoreGeorge Eliot: The Victorian Author Who Dreamed of Roses
Mary Ann Evans December 22, 1880 Today is the 140th anniversary of the death of the English Victorian author George Eliot. George Eliot was the pen name for a woman named Mary Ann Evans, and her many works like Silas Marner and Middlemarch are packed with images from the garden. To Mary Ann, plants were the perfect…
Read MoreGeorge Eliot’s Autumn Soul and the Dream of Raining Roses
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. George Eliot the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a prominent English novelist during the Victorian era. November 22, 2019 On…
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