The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory
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The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory by Deborah Alun-Jones
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 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.
'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 track … these are readable, sympathetic and humane studies' - The Times Literary Supplement
'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 track … these are readable, sympathetic and humane studies' - The Times Literary Supplement
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500516775 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500516774 |
| Title | The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory |
| Author | Deborah Alun-Jones |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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