The Edwardian Lady: The Story Of Edith Holden
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Behind the beloved watercolour pages of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady lies a remarkable woman whose life was as vivid and fleeting as the wildflowers she so meticulously painted — Ina Taylor's The Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden brings that life fully into the light. This biography chronicles the world of Edith Holden, the Warwickshire artist and naturalist who captured the rhythms of the English countryside at the turn of the twentieth century, set against the rich backdrop of Edwardian Britain with its social conventions, artistic movements, and the quiet drama of a woman forging a creative identity of her own. Taylor presents her subject with a biographer's rigour and a storyteller's grace, drawing on personal letters, family records, and historical research to reconstruct a portrait that is both intimate and culturally illuminating. The book situates Holden within the broader currents of the Arts and Crafts movement, the suffragist spirit of the age, and the bittersweet tension between feminine domesticity and artistic ambition. Taylor's measured, elegant prose ensures that Holden emerges not merely as the author of a charming diary, but as a fully realised individual whose story — cut tragically short — resonates long after the final page.
Author: Ina Taylor
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Behind the beloved watercolour pages of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady lies a remarkable woman whose life was as vivid and fleeting as the wildflowers she so meticulously painted — Ina Taylor's The Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden brings that life fully into the light. This biography chronicles the world of Edith Holden, the Warwickshire artist and naturalist who captured the rhythms of the English countryside at the turn of the twentieth century, set against the rich backdrop of Edwardian Britain with its social conventions, artistic movements, and the quiet drama of a woman forging a creative identity of her own. Taylor presents her subject with a biographer's rigour and a storyteller's grace, drawing on personal letters, family records, and historical research to reconstruct a portrait that is both intimate and culturally illuminating. The book situates Holden within the broader currents of the Arts and Crafts movement, the suffragist spirit of the age, and the bittersweet tension between feminine domesticity and artistic ambition. Taylor's measured, elegant prose ensures that Holden emerges not merely as the author of a charming diary, but as a fully realised individual whose story — cut tragically short — resonates long after the final page.