Son of the Secret Gardener : The story of the real-life gardener behind the Secret Garden

Millum, Trevor

Quadrant Books（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 134 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781861519931
• DDC分類 635.092

Full Description

This story has its roots in the life of George Owen Millum, who at the turn of the 19th century was the head gardener at Maytham Hall in Kent, the home of Frances Hodgson Burnett, long celebrated for her timeless classic The Secret Garden. The garden in the story was based upon that at Maytham Hall, and George Millum was the model for Ben Weatherstaff, Frances Hodgson Burnett's fictional gardener. George's son, George Charles Millum, who like his father was born in the gardener's cottage at Maytham, also grew up to be a country house gardener - hence the title of this book, written and compiled by his own son with detailed extracts from his diaries.

Contents

Introduction: a life in gardening 1
The American writer and the English garden 3
George Charles Millum, Son of The Secret Gardener 15
Promotion and marriage 27
The diary for 1935 30
The war years and beyond 70
A new position 76
The diary for 1949 80
Epilogue 117
About the Author 118
Acknowledgement 119