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Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nicholss delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his run-down Georgian mansion and its garden.
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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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1999
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PR6027.I22Z76 1999eb
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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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Sunlight on the Lawn
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Sunlight on the Lawn
Beverley Nichols
With a Foreword by Bryan Connon
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Dust jacket photograph of Beverley Nichols is the property of Bryan Connon, reproduced with permission
Drawings by William McLaren
Copyright 1956 by the estate of Beverley Nichols
First published in 1956 by Jonathan Cape
Foreword, Bibliography, and Index copyright 1999 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
Reprinted 1999
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nichols, Beverley, 1899 Sunlight on the lawn / Beverley Nichols with a foreword by Bryan Connon. p. cm. Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, c1956. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-88192-467-9 1. Nichols, Beverley, 1899- Homes and hauntsEnglandSurrey. 2. Authors, English20th centuryBiography. 3. GardenersEngland Biography. 4. GardeningEnglandSurrey. I. Title. PR6027.I22Z76 1999 828`.91209-dc21 [B] 98-39846 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
by Bryan Connon
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Sunlight on the Lawn
Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1956
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Contents
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Bibliography
by Roy C. Dicks
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Index
by Roy C. Dicks
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Foreword
It was while having tea with Beverley on the terrace of his home in Richmond that he suddenly asked me if I would like to be his biographer, adding that he would quite understand if I refused. You, dear reader (as writers used to say in more gracious times), will understand my astonishment and delight. After a moment, during which I pretended to be giving his proposal the profoundest consideration, I replied that nothing would give me greater pleasure. "I am not so sure about pleasure," said Beverley with asperity. "It will he hard work, and all that delving you'll have to do may be tiresome hut not, I hope, a bore."
Subsequently, during my "delving," I asked him about the people featured in his books. Were they real or fictional? Who was Miss Mini for instance? As I had half guessed, she was really Miss Hazlitt from previous books who had been based on Beverley's governess Miss Herridge. This gentle but formidable lady, undoubtedly one of the most influential figures of his childhood, developed his love of flowers, giving him a sound foundation of scholarship by teaching him to identify them by their Latin and common names. She also showed him how to grow them from cuttings and from seed. He was then only five or six, and in old age he still remembered the wonder and joy he felt when his efforts were successful. It was a sensation recaptured when he created his first garden, later immortalised in Down the Garden Path.
I have several of the letters Miss Herridge wrote to "Bey," in which she describes the wildflowers gathered in the hedgerows near her home. These letters demolished my suspicion that, as
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Miss Hazlitt or Miss Mint, she was too good to be true. It is humbling to read the words of an elderly lady who believed that her agony from cancer was God's way of testing her faith and was therefore a special blessing.
The flamboyant Bob, who rescues Miss Mint from the consequences of her kindness, was not a member of the Rothschild family as Beverley hinted, He was Robert Lebus a wealthy antique collector who helped Beverley to select at country sales items that would grow in value. Ironically, when he badly needed money in old age, Beverley could not bear to part with his antiques and refused to believe they were worth much. He would have been amazed at the prices they fetched after his death.
Marius was really Professor A. M. Lowe, a brilliant scholar, into whose mouth Beverley was able to place odds and ends of intriguing information that he had accumulated himself. "He was mostly him and partly me," as he put it. The two "leading ladies" Our Rose and Miss Emily need no explanation for we have all met their like in our own communities: well meaning, good hearted, but occasionally absolutely infuriating!
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