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208 page soft back (230x155mm) Over 80 black & white photographs
ISBN 978-0-9528839-8-2
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CHALDON HERRING Writers in a Dorset Landscape Judith Stinton Chaldon Herring is a remote Dorset village concealed in a valley two steep miles from the sea. It was, for centuries, an impoverished forgotten place conspicuous only for its ancient barrows. Then in 1904 the writer Theodore Powys settled there, married a Chaldon girl, and began the novels and short stories which made him - and the village - famous. He had chosen Chaldon for its quiet inaccessibility but this was soon disturbed by the influx of visitors who came to see him, among them the wrtiers David Garnett and Sylvia Townsend Warner, and the sculptor Stephen Tomlin. For a while in the 1920s and 30s Chaldon Herring almost became a literary colony
Chaldon Herring examines the question why this particular village should have had such an effect on so many people using much previously unpublished material - letters diaries, photographs, poems and fictional writings. The history of the village and its buildings is traced through old records and through the memories of the people still living there at the end of the 20th century. |
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