Margery fish biography of christopher

          The wonderful writer Margery Fish, author of We Made a Garden, ostensibly describes finding a house in Somerset and creating the garden from..

          This is not just a biography but the story of a family and a house.

        1. This is not just a biography but the story of a family and a house.
        2. Walter's wife looked back and chronicled what they did with their two acre plot in the classic gardening book We Made a Garden by Margery Fish.
        3. The wonderful writer Margery Fish, author of We Made a Garden, ostensibly describes finding a house in Somerset and creating the garden from.
        4. We Made a Garden is the story of how Margery Fish, the leading British gardener of the mid 20th century, and her husband Walter transformed an acre of.
        5. I'll finish with the wonderful Margery Fish from East Lambrook Manor in Somerset.

          6. Margery Fish

          Garden writer and horticulturalist

          Margery Fish (née Townshend) (5 August 1892 – 24 March 1969) was an English gardener and gardening writer, who exercised a strong influence on the informal English cottage garden style of her period.[1] The garden she created, at East Lambrook Manor in Somerset, has Grade I listed status and remains open to the public.

          Background

          Margery Townshend was born on 5 August 1892 at 16 Eastbank, Stamford Hill, now part of the London Borough of Hackney, as the second of the four daughters of Ernest Townshend (died 1926), a commercial traveller in tea, and his wife Florence Harriet, née Buttfield (died 1920).[2]

          She was educated at the Friends School Saffron Walden and at a secretarial college, before spending twenty years working in Fleet Street, initially with countryside magazines and then with Associated Newspapers.

          There she accompanied Lord Northcliffe on a war mission to the United States in 1916, and then