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Jane Brown is the author of several books on eminent gardeners, including GARDENS OF A GOLDEN AFTERNOON, the story of Edwin Luytens’s partnership with Gertrude Jekyll, which has become a much-loved classic all over the world. Her other books have included one on Lutyens and the Edwardians, and the gardening biographies of Vita Sackville-West, Lanning Roper and the American landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand. Her seminal work, THE PURSUIT OF PARADISE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF GARDENS AND GARDENING, was published by HarperCollins in 1999 to great critical acclaim. THE MODERNIST GARDEN was published by Thames and Hudson, and SPIRITS OF PLACE was published by Penguin in May 2001. Jane Brown has pulled up her Hampshire/Surrey roots and transplanted herself to Northamptonshire. TALES OF THE ROSE TREE was published in April 2005; her most recent book was MY DARLING HERIOTT, from HarperCollins, published in 2006. The Guardian said of MY DARLING HERIOTT: 'Brown has unearthed a wonderful character who has until now existed only in the margins of garden history. With great verve, she places Henrietta at the centre of the genesis of the picturesque garden movement.' |
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MY DARLING HERIOTT:THE LIFE AND LANDSCAPES OF HENRIETTA LUXBOROUGH, POETIC GARDENER AND IRREPRESSIBLE EXILE -
Henrietta St John, eighteenth-century aristocrat, bluestocking and society exile, was born on St Swithin's Day in 1700, and brought up in the heart of Hogarthian London and at her ancestral home of... |
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SPIRITS OF PLACE -
SPIRITS OF PLACE is the history of five people famous for their books, art and unconventional lifestyles in the first half of the twentieth century. Jane Brown describes the symbolic importance of... |
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TALES OF THE ROSE TREE -
From the giant Rhododendron falconeri with its peeling cinnamon bark on sculptured trunks to the delicate potted azalea on the garden patio, almost everyone has a rhododendron within reach of their... |
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THE GARDEN AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY -
The garden at Buckingham Palace is probably one of the best-known 'secret gardens' in the world. Its name is recognised as the venue for the Queen's summer garden parties and, at 16 hectares (40... |
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THE MODERN GARDEN -
The popular idea of the domestic garden is still rooted in the cottage garden tradition inspired by Gertrude Jekyll. But there is an essential link between modern art and architecture and garden... |
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THE OMNIPOTENT MAGICIAN: LANCELOT 'CAPABILITY' BROWN 1716 - 1783 -
The first fully-rounded biography of Capability Brown, the genius who created the English landscape garden.
'Born to grace nature, and her works complete,
With all that’s beautiful, sublime and... |