Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
Language: English
Published by Allen Lane, London, 2024
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
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Brand new SIGNED hardback copy. Published by Allen Lane 2014, 1st edition 1st printing. A beautiful production. A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind. It is 1917, Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman's cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond Lehmann settles in a Berkshire village, seeking a lovers' retreat, a refuge from war, and a means of becoming 'a writer again'. Rural Hours tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the country and was forever changed by it.We encounter them at quiet moments - pausing to look at an insect on the windowsill, jotting down a recipe, or digging for potatoes, dirt beneath their nails. Slowly, we start to see transformations unfold. Invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making homes, they emerge from long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment, they embark on new experiments in form, in feeling and in living. In the country, each woman finds her path to convalescence and recovery, to sexual and political awakening, and, above all, to personal freedom and creative flourishing. Graceful, fluid, and enriched by previously untouched archival material, Rural Hours is both a paean to the bravery and vision of three pioneering writers, and a passionate invitation to us all to recognize the radical potential of domestic life and rural places, and find new enchantment in the routines and rituals of each day. We pack our books properly using recycled materials where we can, and post daily from the UK.…
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- Title
- Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- Author
- Harriet Baker
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, London
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241540518
- ISBN 13
- 9780241540510
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 0.59 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 3.3 centimeters width by 16.2 centimeters height by 24.2 centimeters depth
**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award**
‘A superb portrait of the complex imprint the countryside makes on the life of the mind … A treasure’ Doireann Ní Ghríofa
In Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the countryside and was forever changed by it. We encounter them at quiet moments – pausing to look at an insect on the windowsill; jotting down a recipe; or digging for potatoes, dirt beneath their nails. Slowly, we start to see transformations unfold: Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann emerge before us as the passionate, visionary writers we know them to be.
Following long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment, each of Baker's subjects is invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home; slowly, they embark on new experiments in form, in feeling and in living that would resonate throughout the rest of their lives. In the country, each woman finds her path: to convalescence and recovery; to sexual and political awakening; and, above all, to personal freedom and creative flourishing.
In graceful, fluid prose, Baker vividly recreates these overlooked episodes, revealing how ‘rural hours’ defined the lives of three pioneering writers. In the end, she shows, their example is an invitation to us all: to recognize the radical and creative potential of rural places, and find new enchantment in the rituals of each day.
‘Warm, perceptive, eloquent … Like Baker’s protagonists in their countryside boltholes I felt “socketed” by this book. I know I’ll return to it again and again’ Lauren Elkin
‘A meditative exploration of renewal, visionariness, grievous loss, and love – cool and passionate, fragile and enduring’ David Hayden
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