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Perdita Buchan worked in the Nef studio. Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for ...
John Buchan and CS Lewis: Two Outsiders and the Inner Ring by Marcus Paul 32 A Portrait of Tommy Nelson: ‘My Dearest Friend’ by Ian Cairns 41 A Portrait of ‘Cubby’ Medd: ‘One of My Dearest Friends’ by Kenneth Hillier 50 The Meadow by Perdita Buchan 59 John Buchan’s Augustus: A Covert Attack on Facism by Phyllis Brighouse 61
Utopia, New Jersey, For most people - even the most satisfied New Jersey residents - these words hardly belong in the same sentence. Yet, unknown to many, history shows that the state has been a favorite location for utopian experiments for more than a century.
A romantic view of "back to the land" is challenged when time travel isolates Clover, the novel's young heroine, in 1816 - Vermont's year without a summer.
30 de out. de 2007 · In this intriguing look at this little-known side of New Jersey, Perdita Buchan explores eight of these communities. Adopting a wide definition of the term utopia—broadening it to include experimental living arrangements with a variety of missions—Buchan explains that what the founders of each of these colonies had in common was the goal of improving life, at least as they saw it.
Perdita Buchan was born in England, came to America as a child, grew up in Philadelphia, and graduated from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) with a BA in English. She worked in publishing in New York and London and spent one happy year studying art in Florence, Italy.
