INSCRIBED BY CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL
Herbs and the fragrant garden.
Sevenoaks, Kent.
The Herb Farm Ltd, 1957.
First edition, first impression.
Large 8vo.
140pp. With four photographs, a coloured frontispiece and a further 28 coloured plates. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt, with original publisher's illustrated dustwrapper. Later inked ownership of Horace Todd, dated 1976, to FEP. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP: 'A Happy Christmas dear Mrs Cox, from Clementine Churchill, 1957'.
Inscribed by Clementine Churchill, social organiser, political campaigner, life peer in her own right, and wife to Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Awarded a CBE at the close of the First World War for contributions to the working conditions of the munitions workers on behalf of the YMCA, Churchill campaigned on behalf of her husband in the 1922 general election while he recovered from an operation. During the Second World War, she was Chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia fund, president of the YWCA's War Time appeal, and Chair of a maternity hospital for Officer's wives. Clementine Churchill was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.
Churchill was a keen gardener who's efforts and influence can still be enjoyed at Chartwell, the Churchill's family home in Kent. Set across 20 acres, there are numerous lawns, lakes, a kitchen garden, a rose walk, and the more formal Lady Clementine's Rose Garden - said to have been her pride and joy. It is then likely that the recipient of Herbs shared this passion with Churchill, though not much more is known about her.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 34777
Awarded a CBE at the close of the First World War for contributions to the working conditions of the munitions workers on behalf of the YMCA, Churchill campaigned on behalf of her husband in the 1922 general election while he recovered from an operation. During the Second World War, she was Chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia fund, president of the YWCA's War Time appeal, and Chair of a maternity hospital for Officer's wives. Clementine Churchill was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.
Churchill was a keen gardener who's efforts and influence can still be enjoyed at Chartwell, the Churchill's family home in Kent. Set across 20 acres, there are numerous lawns, lakes, a kitchen garden, a rose walk, and the more formal Lady Clementine's Rose Garden - said to have been her pride and joy. It is then likely that the recipient of Herbs shared this passion with Churchill, though not much more is known about her.
