The Private World of Tasha Tudor
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Book Reviews of The Private World of Tasha Tudor
Book Review: A Vision of Creating the Life You Want
Summary: 5 Stars
Summary: Ms. Tasha Tudor always wanted "to live on a secluded farm . . . with a garden and a menagerie of household pets and barnyard animals, and to illustrate children's books." And that's exactly what she did. This gorgeous book lovingly displays her life and her illustrations while recounting her personal philosophy of living an 1830's style life. Review: Ms. Tudor's "greatest pleasure is clearly her garden." After seeing the spectacular images of the blooms bursting from that rocky Vermont soil, your views of what can be done with gardens will be transformed forever. For example, she has over 1000 daffodils. The book also features many lovely still lifes featuring blossoms, as well as garden-focused landscapes.
Much of her life is home-spun, literally. She spins her own cloth, and makes her own clothes from it. The clothing she wears will remind you of the costumes you have seen at Colonial Williamsburg and Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. But these are her daily garb. She has carefully dressed the rest of her life to match her preferences, as well.
Walking barefoot through her home, she enjoys her exotic birds (especially the silly sayings from her parrots) and corgis. The book also shows many fine drawings of the corgis.
Cooking is also a great joy, and she makes her own preserves. She sees the opportunity to display "artistry as a cook."
As to the 1830's, she says that "I'm drawn to the old ways, convinced that I lived before, in the 1830's." "When I die, I'm going right back to 1830." Seeing her life portrayed here, you'll swear she never left. Seeing her in her home reminds me of Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts where the Alcott family lived in the 19th century. The wardrobe there contains dresses that the Alcott daughters used in their theatrical productions that also evoke the images in this wonderful book.
Her professional interest in illustration was stimulated by seeing the drawings in The Vicar of Wakefield. Through the time this book was written, she had illustrated more than 75 children's books. You will enjoy seeing her work in this book.
After you finish looking at the delightful images here, and being warmed by the thoughtful expression of a considered life, you should think about what elements would bring perfection to your life if you crafted it as carefully as an artist does a large marble sculpture. What do you need to chip away? What do you need to refine? Where should the sculpture be displayed?
Make living a wonderful art!
Book Review: All her books are great..this one is a gem
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an early Christmas gift along with four other Tasha Tudor books and I LOVE it. Maybe because there is a bit of Tasha Tudor in me or because we live in a small cottage in the Sierras and have chickens, goats, vegetable, herb and flower gardens and love many of the same things she loves.I like the fact that like Beatrix Potter another author I adore, she lives an authentic homestead life and loves her livestock, painting and making things with her hands. And I found some helpful tricks for catching the occasional mouse that gets in the place. And it is nice to read where someone else uses the good china daily and doesn't save it just for company. Or the joy of wearing clothes that some antique dealer would think are to valuable. And as she notes on page 112 "It satisfies me to spin and knit and weave. I love to be self sufficient, to learn how to make everything I use."
She speaks about and there are accompanying photos of the changes of seasons and the joys she encounters along the way. Her goats, sheep, chickens, rabbits and wild birds. Her cooking, spinning and how she plans for the joys in her life.
But I guess one thing I liked so much was her philosophy which she says comes in part from Henry David Thoreau and says "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." As she says "That is my credo. It is absolutely true. It is my whole life summed up."
Book Review: wonderful tribute to tasha tudor
Summary: 5 Stars
This book helps to fill the gap left with Tasha Tudors passing. We won't have any more of her now. The Private World of Tasha Tudor helps to fill the space. The book depicts a year in Tasha's life, filled with pictures of her house, the things she loved and the place that she loved so well. The writing describes her approach to filling her life, how she lived by writing and illustrating for children when her own children were growing up.
She lived as if she were transported in time to an earlier era when times allowed for a more gracious, elegant sensibility.
I particularly loved the pictures of inside her house.
Book Review: A Passion for Life
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book. I saw her in Victoria magazine years ago, and then again in a bookstore, and finally ordered it on Amazon and read it from front to back in 2 days. I could not put this down. This amazing lady is living life as She wants to live it. This will transport you to a more gentler time, slower than today's crazy pace. You'll be inspired to live up to your own dreams. I love seasons, but I happen to live in a place where we don't have them, this book has enabled me to enjoy them when I need to. Her home and gardens are very inspiring and the photo's are great.
Book Review: A Primer on Primitive Opulence
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me begin by saying that, if I could choose a book to live in, this would definitely be the one!Tasha Tudor is a fascinating eccentric and a brilliantly creative talent, and this volume shows her in her own environs. Richard Brown, the photographer of this and other books about Tasha Tudor, obviously fell in love with her, too- at least his camera did!!
This book lives on my coffee table and, anytime I need a quick 'vacation', I just go inside . . . . . (I wish she'd adopt me!)
A MUST BUY!