Gertrude Jekyll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,44,65,67,7,66,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-bookshelf","8":"tag-19th-century","9":"tag-20th-century","10":"tag-architecture","11":"tag-arts-and-crafts","12":"tag-local-history","13":"tag-ornament","14":"tag-surrey","16":"with-featured-image"},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square.jpg",600,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square-450x450.jpg",450,450,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square.jpg",600,600,false],"large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square.jpg",600,600,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square.jpg",600,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square.jpg",600,600,false],"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"ab-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"atomic-blocks-featured-image":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square.jpg",600,600,false],"atomic-blocks-featured-image-wide":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square.jpg",600,600,false],"atomic-blocks-logo":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-old-west-surrey-square-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"![\"Old](\"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/artsofplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2020\/11\/jekyll-title-page-original-293x450.jpg\")
Unlike Gertrude Jekyll\u2019s numerous other \u201cgarden books\u201d, which are predominately dedicated to the planning and maintenance of a garden over the year, Old West Surrey <\/em>was intended to memorialise the elements of rural working-class life that she saw rapidly disappearing from her beloved late nineteenth-century stomping-grounds. Roving from the architectural features of specific properties to characters remembered from childhood church sermons, fragments of dialect, dress, custom, and house ornament; and peppered with her own photographs and illustrations, Jekyll\u2019s text is devoted to recording her impressions of local culture, used to promote her own Arts and Crafts sensitivity to place. This work is an important example of the twentieth-century reclamation of the distinctiveness of local village life, and Jekyll\u2019s prime concern is the countryside included in her personal definition of Old West Surrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"