The Lost Garden (16 page)

I would like to thank my agent, Frances Hanna; and my editors, Phyllis Bruce, Liz Calder, and Amy Cherry, for their care and critical acumen.

The lines from “The Wrong Road” by Richard Church are reprinted by permission of Everyman Publishers Plc.

The last four lines of “Tennessee June,” used as an epigraph, are from
The Dream of the Unified Field: Poems 1974–1994
by Jorie Graham, Copyright © 1995 by Jorie Graham, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

The newspaper reference to Virginia Woolf’s disappearance is from
The Times
, April 3, 1941.

Mary Louise Adams, Elizabeth Christie, Richard Fiorino, Elizabeth Greene, Frances Humphreys, Kathy Humphreys, Shanne Humphreys, Paul Kelly, Stewart MacMillan, Daintry Norman, Joanne Page, Ruth Roach Pierson, Donna Vittorio, and Sue Worrall all provided support and assistance, literary and otherwise, during the writing of this book.

I would like to thank my father for the details of his life and his father’s life that have made their way into this story.

Information and flavour about the Women’s Land Army has been taken from
The Women’s Land Army
by Vita Sackville-West, published under the auspices of The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries by Michael Joseph, London, 1944.

Details from
The Genus Rosa
have been taken from
The Genus Rosa
by Ellen Willmott, illustrations by Alfred Parsons; published by John Murray, London, 1910–14.

Details from
To the Lighthouse
are taken from
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf, first published by The Hogarth Press in 1927.

The lines from Tennyson are from “In Memoriam A.H.H.”, written by Alfred Lord Tennyson from 1833–1850.

The lines from the Tennyson commentary are from
Analysis of Mr. Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”
by Frederick W. Robertson, Brighton, 1862.

The lines from Virgil are from Georgic IV, written in 29
B.C.E
.

The information about angels is from the writings of William of Ockham (1280–1349).

For her daily words, Sue Goyette was the necessary angel during the writing of this book.