Helena Attlee
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Fellow at University of Worcester, 2009-11
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Helena Attlee is a non-fiction writer who has specialised in garden writing.
She makes her approach to the subject through cultural history and the biographies of the people connected with the gardens that she writes about. She has always made Italy her special subject and her most recent book on its gardens, Italian Gardens: A Cultural History, was published by Frances Lincoln in 2006. As a graduate in Italian she was able to bring much new material to a familiar subject. The book was widely and well reviewed and has taken its place on the reading lists at various universities, including Birkbeck University of London and NYU in America. In 2008 Frances Lincoln published The Gardens of Portugal, another critical success, now also published in Portuguese. 2009 has seen the publication of The Gardens of Wales and Charles Latham's Italian Gardens, illustrated by Latham's photographs taken in 1903, and published by Aurum Press. A book on the gardens of Japan will be published in 2010. Helena also contributes articles about architecture, interiors and gardens to numerous magazines, including Country Life and World of Interiors. She lectures both at home and abroad on a broad spectrum of subjects within garden history and is a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck. She designs and leads lecture tours to gardens in Italy, Portugal and Britain.
