Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe CBE (6 November 1922 – 14 January 2023)
wrote novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism and social history. Best known for his novels, in particular Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, and his non-fiction writing serialised in the Church Times, Blythe was also editor of Penguin Classics for two decades and produced critical studies of Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, William Hazlitt and Henry James. For many years he was President of the John Clare Society. In 2006 he was awarded the Benson Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2017 made a CBE for his services to Literature.
Read his obituary in the Guardian here.
Decadal: Signed Limited Edition
The first collection of poetry by the novelist and writer on the countryside Ronald Blythe. He is also author of Akenfield and At the Yeoman's House. Each copy is uniquely bound in handmade marbled wrappers by Jemma Lewis. The text paper, provided by Graham Williams of the Florin Press, is 120gsm Basingwerk Suede. Special signed editions are too valuable to send out via regular postage channels. We therefore use a courier to send them to you. We hope that you can appreciate why there will be an appropriate shipping charge to accommodate this.
Chapbook£55.00
At the Yeoman's House
At the Yeoman's House
When in 1947 the young writer Ronald Blythe first visited Bottengoms Farm on the Essex-Suffolk border, the ancient house of the artists John and Christine Nash, he could not have guessed that this would in time become his own home and the centre of his writing life. From his current perspective, Blythe looks back with affection to the friendships with artists, writers, farmers, gardeners and neighbours that were to enrich his life. At the Yeoman’s House is not merely a spellbinding fragment of autobiography, but also a fascinating picture of the history, topography, botany and folk-lore of...
£15.00