Lace Villages by Liz Bartlett
This book looks at the history of the major lace villages of the three Midland counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire with many examples of the laces associated with these villages. In this book, the reader is taken on a tour through the villages of the Midland counties whose lacemaking heritage is among the most celebrated in the world. The book is illustrated with rare photographs of finished lace, antique printings, many from the author's own extensive private collection, and photographs of local scenes. "Lace Villages" focuses upon the distinctive lace types produced, important historical features and lacemaking institutions.
Elizabeth Bartlett (1924-2008) was born in Deal, in the mining region of Kent. She left school at 15 shortly before the start of the Second World War, to start work in a factory making hypodermic needles. Married during the War, she helped support her family with various jobs, working for 16 years as a medical secretary, and later in the home help service and as a tutor. She lived in Burgess Hill, West Sussex. Despite early success at the age of 19, in Tambimuttu's Poetry London, she did not publish again until her mid-50s. Her first retrospective volume, A Lifetime of Dying: Poems 1942-1979 (Peterloo Poets, 1979), covered mainly work written in the latter two decades. She went on to publish four collections in the 1980s and early 90s: Strange Territory (Peterloo Poets, 1983), The Czar Is Dead (Rivelin Grapheme, 1986), Instead of a Mass (Headland, 1991) and Look, No Face (Redbeck Press, 1991). In 1995 Bloodaxe published Two Women Dancing: New & Selected Poems, edited by Carol Rumens, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This was followed by two later collections of poems written in her late 70s, Appetites of Love (2001) and Mrs Perkins and Oedipus (2004), both from Bloodaxe. In 2005 the Poetry Archive issued her CD, Elizabeth Bartlett Reading from her poems. Elizabeth Bartlett died in 2008, age 84.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713463682 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713463686 |
| Title | Lace Villages |
| Author | Liz Bartlett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Batsford Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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