Ethelind fearon biography templates
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End plate from Flower Growing for Ungardeners
I’m always amazed by how easy it is for people who are well-known in their lifetimes to disappear completely from public view soon after their death. One of the things I like doing on the blog is bringing some of them back to public notice. Sometimes that’s easy – there’s plenty written about them but their work just became unfashionable or out of date but today’s subject has been extraordinarily difficult to track down. But she’s not an obscure 17thc garden-maker or an almost anonymous Georgian diarist or Victorian botanic painter. Far from it. She lived in Essex, wrote a string of books including several about gardening and died as recently as 1974. Yet there is almost literally nothing written about her and even her small home town seems hardly to have heard of her. I admit it: Ethelind Fearon almost had me beaten…
from the book-jacket of The Marquis, the Mayonnaise and Me courtesy of Ken Baker
Thought so! You’ve never heard of her either. Nor has Wikipedia. I hope by the end of this post you’ll want to go and find some of her books – and then write a Wikipedia page. I am indebted to Ken Baker who sent me a copy of an article he had written about
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Ethelind Fearon was born 18th December 1898 and lived in Thaxted, Essex…. or was she and did she? She was one of many great food and recipe writers of the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s, and published many books, wittily and charmingly written, including the one I have,’Jams, Jellies and Preserves’, published in 1953. You can tell the sort of writer she was, look at some of her titles: Me and Mr. Mountjoy, Flower Growing For Ungardeners, The Reluctant Hostess, Home-Made Sweets, Candies and Fudge – How to Make Them, Fancy Cakes and Pastries… and several children’s books about animals, The Secret of the Chateau, The Sheep-dog Adventure and Pluckrose’s Horse.
I can’t find any substantial biographical information about her; I have come across a birth date on her death certificate (1974), 18th December, 1898, but I can’t find anyone of her name being born then, so maybe Fearon was her married name. There are little snippets of information in articles – she was passionate about gardening and was gardener to H.G Wells at one time, and also ran a tea house – what I suppose now we would call a tea room. She also apparently restored fourteenth-century houses. She had children and wrote a book, How To Keep Pace With Y