{"product_id":"long-live-great-bardfield","title":"Long Live Great Bardfield","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 500px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/page_26_PB_bottom_right.jpg?v=1593112551\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEDITED AND WITH A PREFACE BY ANNE ULLMANN\u003cbr\u003e512pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781910263099\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhen Tirzah Garwood was 18 she went to Eastbourne School of Art and here she was taught by the artist Eric Ravilious. Over the next four years she did many wood engravings and these were widely praised and several were displayed by the Society of Wood Engravers. Alas, after she and Eric were married in 1930 a large part of her time was spent on domestic chores. In 1935 she had the first of her three children. In 1942 – the year she was operated on for breast cancer – she wrote her autobiography (in the evening, after the children were in bed);  this has now been published with the title \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhen she began her autobiography Tirzah wrote: ‘I hope, dear reader, that you may be one of my descendants, but as I write a German aeroplane has circled round above my head taking photographs of the damage that yesterday’s raiders have done, reminding me that there is no certainty of our survival. If you are not one of my descendants then all I ask of you is that you love the country as I do, and when you come into a room, discreetly observe its pictures and its furnishings, and sympathise with painters and craftsmen.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTirzah quickly found her own inimitable tone in \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong Live Great Bardfield\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e: unshowy, understated, uninhibited, matter of fact, human (\u003ci\u003eso\u003c\/i\u003e human) and funny. ‘I had bought the tortoises from Woolworth’s to save them from death in the same spirit that we [later] offered our home to German refugees.’ Her\u003cspan\u003e story is important not just as the portrait of a group of artists in the interwar years (why this particular outbreak of talent hasn’t been made into a film one can’t imagine) but because it expresses her individuality and brilliance and humanity as she \u003c\/span\u003echronicles the life of a woman struggling to lead an artistic life amidst the constraints of childcare and housework. In the words of  Virginia Woolf, ‘How any woman with a family ever put pen to paper I cannot fathom.  \u003cspan\u003eAlw\u003c\/span\u003eays the bell rings and the baker calls’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAlso available as a Persephone eBook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eTaken from a decorative paper design, in engravers ink red, by Tirzah Garwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Train Journey\u003c\/em\u003e by Tirzah Garwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tirzah Garwood","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098785829171,"sku":"sco1789694685339","price":29.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098785861939,"sku":"spd1789694685340","price":35.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098785894707,"sku":"msp1789694685341","price":34.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098785927475,"sku":"ygy1789694685342","price":53.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/long-live-great-bardfield_1.jpg?v=1789694690","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/long-live-great-bardfield","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}