Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi (January 4, 1918 – May 3, 2009) was a gardener and author. She wrote several books including Green Thoughts , a collection of essays based on her own gardening experiences.
5-423: Perényi may refer to: Béla Perényi , Hungarian chess player Eleanor Perenyi , American gardener and garden writer Péter Perényi , Comes of Temesvár Péter Perényi (1502–1548) , Voivode of Transylvania Miklós Perényi , (born 5 January 1948), Hungarian cellist Zsigmond Perényi (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
10-522: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Eleanor Perenyi Eleanor Perenyi was the daughter of a US Navy officer, Ellis S. Stone and Grace Zaring Stone . Grace Zaring Stone wrote her anti-Nazi novel Escape under the pseudonym Ethel Vance, for fear of jeopardizing the safety of her daughter, who was then living with her husband, the son of the Hungarian noble Baron Zsigmond Perényi , in pro-Fascist Hungary , then to be an ally of
15-502: The Axis powers during World War II . Perenyi is best known as the author of Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden , which drew on her work on her husband's rural estate near the present-day town of Vynohradiv , Ukraine (the former Nagyszőlős, Hungary). Her life there is further recorded in her 1946 memoir More Was Lost , which describes her marriage to her Hungarian noble husband and
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25-613: The impact of World War II on life in rural Hungary. Her other books include the Civil War novel The Bright Sword (1955) and a study of Franz Liszt . Green Thoughts was reviewed by Brooke Astor in The New York Times . More Was Lost was reprinted by New York Review of Books Press in 2016 with an introduction by the poet J.D. McClatchy and is reviewed by Sadie Stein in The Paris Review . Perenyi
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