TY - BOOK AU - Leighton,Clare TI - Four hedges: a gardener's chronicle SN - 9780956254535 AV - SB455 .L4 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - St. Albans, Herts PB - Sumach Press KW - Leighton, Clare, KW - Gardens KW - England KW - Chiltern Hills N1 - Originally published: V. Gollanz, 1935 N2 - "Clare Leighton was one of the finest engravers of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, when she settled in the countryside with her long-term partner, the political journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, she turned her creativity to the land. Gardening became her passion. Her obsession ... By observing the seasonal changes in the garden, she grew familiar with its wildlife and character, forming a bond which fed her work as an artist and contributed to the happiest years of her life. Illustrated with her own ... engravings, this is the story of the garden she carved from meadowland deep in England's Chiltern Hills"--Publisher's description ER -