Reginald Arkell

Background

Arkell was born on 14 October 1882 at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England, was educated at Burford Grammar School and trained as a journalist.

Career

The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book 1066 and All That: 1066—and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman. He was the author of A Cottage in the Country and the Green Fingers series of garden verse. During the First World War he served with the King"s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and The Norfolk Regiment.

Arkell died on 1 May 1959 at Cricklade, England.

Is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal manservant, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "," the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, "so blue, so blue it positively hurts."

Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal—and crotchety—head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house.

Works

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  • The Round House

    (DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been re...)

  • Winter sportings

    (1929. 8°. With a frontispiece and coloured illustrations ...)

  • 1066- and all that: A musical comedy based on that memorable history by Sellar and Yeatman (French's Acting Edition)
  • 1066--and all that;: A musical comedy based on that memorable history by Sellar and Yeatman; (French's acting edition)
  • 1066 and all that : A musical comedy of English history
  • 1066 and All That: Play: A Memorable History of England (Acting Edition)