It's absolutely hard for you to imagine how far we went around the garden today. An apricot fruit was even found in a tree.
—Jane Austen
Mr. Darcy's Pemberley Manor in Pride and Prejudice, the wandering scenery of the male and female nobles in "Orlando", the walking trails of the ghostly people in the perfect crime... The garden is the entrance that connects the imagination and reality of female writers, the place where they let go of their fantasies, and the place where their hearts rest.
Jane Austen loved gardens all her life, Virginia Woolf fell in love with gardens, and Agatha Christie became famous and hid in them. The three women writers have different preferences for gardens, but what is the same is that it is a place of freedom that belongs to their side, and is integrated with their lives and their creations.
Austin's monthly season
"The garden is full of pink flowers, and there are also a lot of American caryophyllus and blue-flowered doudou."
—Jane Austen
Chaton Cottage is now the Jane Austen House Museum
It can be said that Jane's life is inextricably linked to the garden. Whether it was the modest garden of the parish house in Steveton, Hampshire, as a child, or the small garden at Chaton Cottage in the last 8 years of her production, in just 41 years of her life, she traveled to many places of residence, and everywhere she went, the garden was a place where she was in a relaxed mood, and scattered through words in her different works.
Austin spent the last 8 years of his life at Chaton Cottage
Jane loves gardens and is a master gardener herself, and in letters to her sister Cassandra, she often talks about the daily care of gardens. In 1809, Jane Austen, with the patronage of her brother Edward, settled in Chaton Cottage in Hampshire (Edward was adopted by a childless nobleman who inherited a large estate and land from Chatton).
Not far from the Chatone Cottage, edward's inherited estate, Austin often walked to
For many years, she had been with her mother and sister in a garden-free apartment rented by Bath. At Chalton Cottage, Jane finally has her own little garden again. It was also close to Edward's mansion, and Jane often trekked through the flowery forest to visit her brothers and take a walk in the grand garden of the mansion.
Austen's window was a garden, and she liked to look out when writing
The red brick house of Chaton Cottage, which has 6 bedrooms, is now the Jane Austen House Museum, preserving as much as possible the way she once lived—there is a small table in front of the window with 12 corners, where Jane has written the words that have been passed down to this day, and she likes to look out the window, and in the summer, when she looks up, the garden is full of pink flowers, and there are many American caryophyllus and blue flowers.
A monthly variety named "Chaton Lodge"
Jane Austen's connection to the garden continues to this day: in 2019, The British Harkness released a new moon-season variety that named this delicate pearl-pink flower with a mild, faint fragrance as "Chawton Cottage".
Woolf's Spring
"With a strange enthusiasm to the lawn except for a whole day of weeds, I have to say, this is happiness."
—Virginia Woolf
Woolfs' former home "Munch Cottage"
Unlike Jane Austen's obsession with gardens, Woolf's love of gardens was even hindsight: for a long time she thought her favorite pastime was walking, walking in the countryside on sunny days and walking on grass in the cold wind. In the endless wandering, her mind was thinking of an article, a story, or a book.
Woolf is set in a garden with a studio and desk
Until she and her husband, Leonard Woolf, bought the "Munch Cottage." Leonard had long been obsessed with gardening, and the Munch Cottage Garden was mainly taken care of by him. Although it doesn't seem like a satisfactory place to live: the rooms are small, the kitchen is damp, the storage rooms are long and narrow, and the house has been flooded.
"Greenery" from outdoor to indoor
But virginia was impressed by its garden, and she often happily joined various gardening activities. In March, daffodils and apricot blossoms both bloomed, and the crocus broke through the shackles of the bulbs to sprout young shoots, and Virginia happily wrote in capital letters: Spring has arrived.
The studio in the garden was originally a shed, where Woolf wrote
There was a room in the garden, at first a shed, with some gardening tools, and as Woolf stayed longer and longer in it, an empty desk, ink bottles, pens, and paper gradually became her studio, sometimes used to store apples. Surrounded by flowers and plants, Woolf wrote an endless stream of works here.
Agatha's Peach Blossom Garden
"Tonight, I sat there thinking, this is the most fascinating place in the world, it almost suffocates me."
--Agatha Christie
Agatha bought the Greenway Estate for a "huge sum of money"
If the garden inspired Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, for Agatha Christie, it was more like a place of healing.
The grand and luxurious interior of Greenway Manor
In 1938, after divorce and remarriage, Agatha had already gained fame and fortune. She spent £6,000 (about 1.5 million yuan) to buy the Greenway Estate, which later became her "dream home". Nestled on the shore of the lake, this ornate white building looms against the backdrop of magnolia and sweet chestnut trees, and every corner is covered with flowers and plants.
Nestled by mountains and lakes, Greenway Manor is shaded by greenery
Agatha did not often write at Greenway Manor. She and her second husband, Max, live in the faraway Greenway, like an invisible wall, which insulates the pressure of fame, where Agatha is a quiet wife, a gentle mother, a kind grandmother, and a kind neighbor. She was known to the town's barbers and fishmongers.
Greenway Manor comes with a huge garden
Greenway also appears in Agatha's novels, "Beer Murder" and "Temple of the Dead", where the murders took place "Naxi Manor" and "Oldbury" are based on the "incredibly beautiful" Greenway. In 2009, Greenway opened to the public, and an endless stream of fans came here to explore the peach blossom garden of the Queen of Reasoning.
Editor, Author: Sean
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