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Perfume from Provence

History

Fortescue, Winifred, Lady

Europe

Hearst Books

Winifred Fortescue was born in Suffolk in 1888. At the age of 17 she decided to help the family's ailing resources by taking a career on the stage, and starred in a number of productions. In 1914 she married John Fortescue, the King's Librarian and Archivist, and in spite of a huge age difference theirs was an exceptionally happy marriage. The couple lost nearly all their money in the stockmarket crash of 1929. Selling what little they had left, they bought a tumbledown cottage high on a mountain outside Grasse in Provence, where they settled for life among the Provencals - with all the trials and tribulations of sulky workmen, flamboyant villagers and learning to drive Provence-style - and with all the pleasures that their new-found neighbours and way of life brought them. Lady Fortescue's account of their life in Provence, where she died in 1951, was first published in 1935. This reissue retains the drawings of E.H. Shepard, the "Winnie the Pooh" illustrator.

Literature & Fiction

Isis Audio

This is the sequel to "Perfume from Provence", chronicling further happenings during the l930s in Provence, where Lady Fortescue and her husband converted an old stone farmhouse into a graceful and idyllic home. For two years after Sir John's death, Lady Fortescue - still a comparatively young woman - continued to live there, but was not altogether happy. Then, visiting a friend, she came across a small, near-derelict house set amidst thickets of wild lavender, magenta gladioli and trailing sweet peas. She fell instantly in love with it, and thus began a new and happy chapter of her life. With the help of her friend and neighbour, "Mademoiselle", she set about trying to purchase the property from a complicated and cunning mafia of locals - and then, once again, she began the heartwarming, frustrating, funny and delightful process of transforming a small Provencal cottage into a home, and creating a garden down the side of the mountain. She call the cottage "Sunset House".

Sunset House

Self-Help

Relationships

In the early 1930s Winifred Fortescue and her husband Sir John settled in Provence, in a small stone house amidst olive groves. Almost at once they were bewitched by the scenery, by their garden - a terraced landscape of vines, wild flowers, roses and lavender - and by the charming, infuriating, warm-hearted and wily Provencals.  When exiled from Provence by the Second World War, she returned to England and joined the Red Cross in order to be useful.  With her distinctive and spirited manner, Lady Fortescue brings alive a changing world in this book packed with incident, atmosphere and above all hope.

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Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

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