A Good Year for Blossom: A Century of the "Guardian's" Women Country Diarists

Country gentlemen bird-watching vicars of the and Farmers HAVE traditionally been the chroniclers of the itish countryside This book introduces a very different point of view. We see the changing seasons - and the 20th century revolution in the long-settled ways of rural life - through the sharp eyes of ten exceptional women including a leading suffragette. a classical scholar. an artist with her own large farm and a climber's daughter who turned to writing when her children grew up and left home.