The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston

She also believes that her development as a young adult had much to do with wanting to cast off the repressive influence of her mother. Boston believes that it was her fathers nature and passionate side that rubbed off on her and instilled in her a sense of nature, art, and music evident in her novels. Her father was a man with an appreciation for the beautiful things of life though he channeled this through his religious conviction. Her father was full of religious fervor and was by all means an eccentric who filled the house with painted friezes with religious epithets. Her mother was an intensely sensitive woman that did not have an ounce of sensuous feeling or maternal feeling. She was brought up in an affluent and solid middle class family that were Wesleyans. Boston was also an accomplished artist who studied painting and drawing in Vienna.īoston was born in Southport, Lancashire in 1892 to Mary Garrett and James Wood, a one time mayor and career engineer. She would win several awards over the years including a best children’s book in the UK award.ĭuring her long career, she made her name for her many children’s novels and for her magical garden that she made from scratch. Her Green Knowe novels were set at an old country manor house that the author has said is based on the old Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire. She is very different from many authors in the genre as she published her novels after she turned sixty. Boston is an English children’s fiction and adult fiction author who is best known for the “Green Knowe” series. It does not store any personal data.Lucy M. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'.

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The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston