Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children's Literature - Softcover

Carpenter, Humphrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395573742 ISBN 13: 9780395573747

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1991

Synopsis

Studies children's literature authors, identifies common sources of inspiration, and explores those aspects of their culture that prompted them to artistically make childish sense of the grown-up world.

About this title

About the Author:

Humphrey Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford, and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children's writer, and worked previously as a producer at the BBC. He wrote biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ezra Pound, C. S. Lewis and Dennis Potter. Among his many books for children were the best-selling Mr Majeika series. He also wrote several plays for the theatre and radio. A keen musician, he was a member of a 1930s-style jazz band, Vile Bodies, which was resident at the Ritz Hotel in London for a number of years. He died in 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0395573742
• ISBN 13: 9780395573747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 12