Beverley Nichols - Merry Hall (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 1)
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First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nicholss horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.
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Nichols, Beverley,--1899---Homes and haunts--England--Surrey, Authors, English--20th century--Biography, Gardeners--England--Biography, Gardening--England--Surrey.
publication date
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1998
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SB455.N57 1998eb
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635/.09422
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Nichols, Beverley,--1899---Homes and haunts--England--Surrey, Authors, English--20th century--Biography, Gardeners--England--Biography, Gardening--England--Surrey.
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Merry Hall
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Beverley Nichols with Four, the cat, on the from steps of Merry Hall, photograph by George Konig courtesy of the Bryan Connon Collection
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Merry Hall
Beverley Nichols
With a Foreword by Ann Lovejoy
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Photographs of Beverley Nichols are the property of Bryan Connon, reproduced with permission
Drawings by William McLaren
Copyright 1951 by the estate of Beverley Nichols
First published in 1951 by Jonathan Cape
Foreword and Index copyright 1998 by Timber Press, Inc.
TIMBER PRESS, INC. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Printed in Hong Kong
Third printing 1999
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nichols, Beverley, 1899 Merry Hall / Beverley Nichols ; with a foreword by Ann Lovejoy. p. cm. Facsim. reprint of: London : Cape, 1951. Includes index. ISBN 0-88192-417-2 1. GardeningEngland. 2. Nichols, Beverley, 1899Homes and hauntsEngland. I. Title. SB455.N57 1998 635'.09422dc21 97-47253 CIP
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CONTENTS
Foreword
by Ann Lovejoy
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Merry Hall
Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1951
6
Contents
9
Index
by Roy C. Dicks
319
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Beverley Nichols and "Oldfield," his gardener, regarding "t'chrysanthe-mums" in the greenhouse of Merry Hall, photograph courtesy of the Bryan Connon Collection
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FOREWORD
Like so many other readers, I discovered Beverley Nichols by picking up a dogeared copy of Down the Garden Path at a secondhand bookstore. Now a classic, it was Nichols's first garden book. When it was published in 1932, it created a huge new readership for Nichols, who was then known chiefly as a reporter and novelist. Such popularity was completely understandable, for as I quickly found, reading one Nichols book leads one irresistibly to seek out another and yet another.
Merry Hall was the second Nichols book I came upon. I was thrilled to learn that it was the first of a trilogy, and that another Nichols trilogy and several singletons remained to be savored. Nichols's writing affects many people this way, each work creating a terrific appetite for more. Finding his garden books became a favorite pastime on road trips, when I could ransack used bookstores across the country. I was forced to search these books out one by one, for, despite his long and successful career, which spanned over fifty years and encompassed more than fifty books, Nichols's work had fallen almost entirely out of print by the mid 1980s.
Most of his books were so timely as to belong utterly to their period. Few of them read as well now as they did in their day, when Nichols's bons mots were widely quoted and his exploits followed like those of film stars or politicians. His fame, or perhaps notoriety, was in a way his undoing, for fond as the English are of their eccentric and talented countrymen, they are also merciless toward any perceived self-promotion.
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A debonair hero who shrugged off acclaim with understated modesty would be adored for life, but let any inclination to inflate his own status appear, and the populace could turn against a fellow overnight.
Despite his lengthy string of hits in every attempted field, Nichols's essential insecurity caused him to revel in his own glory in a way that repeatedly put his public off. With each new endeavor, he would win fresh kudos, yet sooner or later his egotistical transgressions would remove him once again from general favor. This cycle grew more pronounced toward the end of his life, when his increasing propensity for melodramatic autobiography exposed him to severe (if deserved) criticism.
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