The college gardens of Oxford and Cambridge have survived to form a unique part of gardening history and present a collegiate layout of cloisters, quadrangles, courts and walks unrivalled in the world. This is an informative guide to those gardens and also offers a history of gardening through the ages, covering a 700-year period, from the development of the medieval monastery through to the landscape garden of today. It describes the plants to be found and recounts the story of how architects, painters, poets and philosophers as important as Wren, Hawksmoor, Addison, Jekyll, Ruskin, Morris and Lutyens were all instrumental in helping create these historic gardens. Mavis Batey has written many articles and publications including "Alice's Adventures in Oxford". She designs and restores gardens. Hugh Palmer's photographs have appeared in "Country Life", "Interiors", "Homes & Gardens" and other publications.

The historic gardens of Oxford & Cambridge

Arts & Photography

BATEY, Mavis

Architecture

Macmillan

A companion to the Alice stories - how they came to be written down, the events and personalities which influenced Carroll, his relationship with Alice Liddell (the original Alice), the Oxford background, Carroll's dealings with Tenniel (the illustrator) and with Macmillan, who published the books.

The Adventures of Alice: The Stories Behind the Stories

Pan/Macmillan

This account of the history of English gardens is described through the eyes of visitors to gardens from medieval times to the present. It is illustrated with contemporary plans and paintings and modern photographs and enables the reader to understand why and to what purpose gardens were made. The authors demonstrate the depth of horticultural history in a single garden and the way successive fashions in gardening changed from Jacobean times to the present day.

English Garden Tour: A View into the Past

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Lambert, David

Gardening & Landscape Design

John Murray Pubs Ltd

Regency Gardens (Shire Library)

Shire

Landscape historian Batey explores real and fictional settings of Austen's novels. In each chapter she uses a different Austen novel to discuss the style of gardens and landscapes during the early 19th century and Regency England. A continuing theme is the tension between Georgian propriety and the challenging Romantic ideals as they played out in the English landscape. Photos and reproductions of paintings supplement the text. 10.75x10.5" Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Jane Austen and the English Landscape

UNKNO

The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known as Dilly’, was one of the leading figures in the British code-breaking successes of the two world wars. Mavis Batey, who worked for Knox at Bletchley Park, reveals the vital part Dilly played in the deception operation that ensured the success of the D-Day landings, altering the course of the Second World War.

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigma

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Dialogue

Arcadian Thames

Barn Elms Publishing

This work provides a look at Pope's relationship with the leading garden makers of his time. Forever planning and plotting for his own grotto and for his modest five acres in Twickenham, his ideas were also sought at many of the great estates. His importance to Lord Burlington at Chiswick, Henrietta Howard at Marble Hill, and, above all, to William Kent, the great designer is made abundantly clear. The author sets out to throw new light on her subject and show why Pope has been, and remains, so crucial to our landscape.

Alexander Pope: The Poet and the Landscape

Literature & Fiction

Alfred "Dilly" Knox was Britain’s leading wartime codebreaker, an eccentric genius who did more than anyone to decipher the Nazi Enigma codes, thereby shortening the war. Mavis Batey worked at Bletchley Park during the war; few knew Dilly better. She advised Kate Winslet on her role in the film Enigma.

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

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