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Four difficult women who fought to preserve the English countryside

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

The Women Who Saved the English Countryside Matthew Kelly

Yale, pp.400, 20

One thing that Covid lockdown made us appreciate was the importance of being outdoors. When we were finally allowed into them, national and local parks became chockfull and many people rediscovered that being in the open had health benefits.

How timely, then, that Matthew Kelly has written an account of four redoubtable rural activists: Octavia Hill, Beatrix Potter, Sylvia Sayer and Pauline Dower.

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