Background
Moore, John Cecil was born on November 10, 1907 in Tewkesbury, England. Son of Cecil Charles and Eliza Georgina (Moore) Moore.
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Follows on from "Portrait of Elmbury", the first title in the Brensham Trilogy. This novel is set in the villages surrounding Elmbury (based in reality on Bredon). It contains a mixture of action and character, conveying the life of a country community in the halcyon period between the wars.
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The first title in the trilogy of English country life between the wars. Originally published in 1945, the story chronicles the people and events in an English market town.
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( Old friends and new faces join the scholars, rogues and...)
Old friends and new faces join the scholars, rogues and countrymen of Brensham with its crooked village street and crooked church spire. Among its rare individuals who share an obstinacy for making life a romantic and hilarious adventure are those lively landgirls, The Frolick Virgins, Dai, the hymn-singing postman, and William Hart who claimed to be descended from William Shakespeare and loved Pheemy, the young gypsy, not wisely but too well.
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Reminiscent of The Darling Buds of May, by H.E. Bates, this is a beautiful, romantic, and humorous story set in the hop-fields of Herefordshire at harvest time with the central characters of Tim and Marianne―he the son of a prosperous yeoman family who have grown hops at Sollarshill for centuries, she the daughter of their feckless neighbour with whom they have long been at odds. John Moore was Gloucestershire's best-known and loved author of the 20th century―described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in 1907 and died in Bristol in 1967. During the latter part of his life, he lived in the village of Kemerton on the slopes of Bredon Hill, which he popularised as 'Brensham Hill' in a number of his writings. Most of his books had a rural setting and long before conservation came to mainstream media attention he wrote about the effect of technological advances on the countryside and rural life.
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The final volume in "The Bensham Trilogy", following on from "Portrait of Elmbury" and "Brensham Village". The central drama of this book is old William Hart's defiance of the War Agriculture Executive Committee.
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Moore, John Cecil was born on November 10, 1907 in Tewkesbury, England. Son of Cecil Charles and Eliza Georgina (Moore) Moore.
Student Malvern College.
He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. His best-selling trilogy, published in the immediate post-Second World War years - Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The Blue Field - was followed by a series of novels and self-styled "country-contentments". In all, Moore was the author of more than 40 published works, most of which explored themes relating to rural life in the first half of the 20th century.
He also wrote the script of the 1957 film The England of Elizabeth, which is noted for its score composed by Vaughan Williams.
From 1943 to 1949 Moore was the organiser of the Tewkesbury Play Festival. He also contributed a weekly column on rural matters to the Birmingham Mail for eighteen years and was a frequent broadcaster on radio.
A talented naturalist from schooldays, Moore was an early campaigner for the conservation of everything connected with the rural scene. Most of his books had a rural setting, and long before the environment came to mainstream media attention, he wrote about some of the negative effects of technological advances on the countryside and rural life.
Moore also fought to conserve the architectural heritage of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, his native town.
Moore was born in Tewkesbury in 1907, where he is commemorated by the John Moore Primary School and the John Moore Countryside Museum. During the latter part of his life, he lived in the village of Kemerton on the slopes of Bredon Hill, which he popularised as "Brensham Hill" in a number of his writings. He died in Bristol in 1967
John Moore and "Elmbury" are commemorated at a number of locations in the Tewkesbury area, including:
The John Moore Museum, near Tewkesbury Abbey
The John Moore Nature Reserve, created and managed by Kemerton Trust on land in the village of Kemerton once owned by the author the name "Elmbury" was given to the new Secondary Modern School for Girls on Ashchurch Road in the 1960s, which later became the nucleus of today"s Tewkesbury School
"The John Moore Primary School" built on the Wheatpieces estate in September 2000
the "Elmbury Suite" opened at Tewkesbury Hospital in January 2001
a public house called "Elmbury Lodge", near Junction 9 of the M5 Motorway, opened in 2004
The Tewkesbury branch of the Embroiderers" Guild is called the "Elmbury (Tewkesbury) Branch".
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(The final volume in "The Bensham Trilogy", following on f...)
(Follows on from "Portrait of Elmbury", the first title in...)
(The first title in the trilogy of English country life be...)
(A great story from the very popular writer John Moore.)
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Fellow Royal Society Literature, British Society.
Married Lucile Douglas Stephens, April.