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Constance Villiers Stuart and the Pursuit of Paradise

  • ISBN-13: 9781914414435
  • Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
    Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
  • By Mary Ann Prior
  • Price: AUD $73.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/08/2022
  • Format: Hardback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biography: literary [BGL]
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In 1903, after a fire completely destroyed her family home in Norfolk, UK, the 27- year-old Constance helped her mother redesign their house and recreate the garden. It was an experience from which she never looked back, going on to become an internationally recognised garden expert and connoisseur. A rich woman herself, she was attracted to the most spectacular and extravagant gardens in the world. From Shalimar Bagh, Lahore, to Nishat Bagh, Srinagar, to La Granja near Madrid, Constance earned her reputation studying Mughal and Moorish gardens as well as those in Great Britain, France, Italy and northern Europe. Between 1910 and 1955 she wrote about them, painted and photographed them and lectured on them. She produced two successful illustrated books, and numerous articles for magazines, including Country Life, Vogue, The Burlington Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, and The Times. When she died in 1966, she left paintings, photographs, diaries, press cuttings and scrapbooks to her grandchildren. It is upon this fascinating and hitherto unseen archive of memorabilia that Constance Villiers Stuart: In Pursuit of Paradise is based.
Mary Ann Prior is a curator and art adviser whose professional career has been divided between Britain and the USA. She specialises in contemporary art but has retained a strong interest in history since her student days at the Royal College of Art, where her study of photographs by Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910) was awarded the Penguin Book Prize.
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