Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Rose Cottage in Irene Soper's garden

Kind reader Joanna sent me some photo's of Rose Cottage (taken in approx. 2021), the cottage in Irene Soper's garden. It used to serve as a home, lastly for herbalist and writer Juliette de Bairacli-Levy. I had never seen a photo of the interior of the cottage, so I was very excited to get one. Thank you very much Joanna!

20-3-2025 I have added the information Joanna sent me:
'The author and herbalist Juliette de Bairalcli Levy lived in this Rose Cottage at Abbots Well in the New Forest for three years soon after the birth of her second child in Spain in 1954. Her memoir Wanderers in the New Forest was published in 1958 with a foreword by the painter Augustus John. After visiting John’s former Fryern Court home and studio at Fordingbridge, I went to meet the late Arthur and Irene Soper who owned the cottage property. They were lovely, telling many stories about Abbots Well, showing me the interior of the cottage, the wonderful spring where Juliette, neighbors and ponies drank the clear cold water, and Latchmore Brook.'





 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 


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