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Sarah Clare Raven (born 1963)〔Her middle name Clare is found at .〕 is an English gardener, writer and television presenter. She was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the daughter of John Earle Raven (d. 1980),〔Date of death taken from ("A Rum Affair" ) New York Times Book Review], which has the first chapter of Karl Sabbagh, ''A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux〕 a classics don and Senior Tutor at King's College, Cambridge, by his wife Faith ''née'' Smith (Constance Faith Alethea Hugh Smith〔〕), a daughter of Owen Hugh Smith (1869–1958).〔 〕 Raven graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in history and then trained as a doctor at the University of London.〔(BBC - Press Office - Sarah Raven ). The original of this reference is no longer available, but the link is to an archived version at the Internet Wayback Machine. Her current (BBC biography ) has no educational background for her.〕 She is married to writer Adam Nicolson, 5th Lord Carnock, and has two daughters with him, plus three stepsons from his previous marriage. Her family's move to a small farm in Sussex was depicted in Nicolson's book ''Perch Hill: A New Life''.〔Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN 0-14-029089-3〕 She now runs a garden and cookery school at Perch Hill, and is a guest presenter on BBC Two's ''Gardeners' World''.〔(BBC - Gardening - TV and radio - P to R )〕 She writes a weekly column for ''The Daily Telegraph''. The celebrated gardener Christopher Lloyd, a near-neighbour of the Nicolsons at Great Dixter, described Raven in the mid-1990s as "really energetic and creative ... promot() a more dynamic and showy style of gardening than has been fashionable for many years".〔Letter to Beth Chatto, 29 October 1996 in Chatto & Lloyd (1998) ''Dear Friend & Gardener''〕 Raven's publications include ''The Cutting Garden'', ''The Bold and the Beautiful Garden'', ''The Great Vegetable Plot'' and ''Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook'' (U.S. title: ''In Season'') which was named Cookery Book of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers in 2008.〔(Guild of Food Writers )〕 In 2011, she published a monumental book on ''Wild Flowers'', with photographs by Jonathan Buckley, who has worked with her on most of her books. A BBC2 television series called ''Bees, Butterflies and Blooms'', focusing on the national decline in pollinating insects and championing nectar-rich flowers as a way of saving them, was broadcast in February 2012. She presented an episode of ''Great British Garden Revival'' which aired on BBC Two in 2014. ''Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden'' was published in November 2014. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Raven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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