Books about Malvern
mostly by local writer
CORA WEAVER
Several written in association with
Bruce Osborne
One written by Janet Grierson
Several by the "Malvern Writers Circle"
| "Write Around Malvern" (1994), a compilation by Malvern Writers Circle 53 pages, ISBN 1 873809 12 3, Price £2.95 - poetry and prose. |
| Bruce Osborne & Cora Weaver, "Aquae Britannia, Rediscovering 17th Century Springs & Spas" (1996), 276 pages, b & w illustrations ISBN 1 873809 22 0 Price £16.99. An explorer s guide around the country in the footsteps of traveller and diarist Celia Fiennes. |
Bruce Osborne & Cora Weaver "Springs, Spouts, Fountains & Holy Wells of the Malverns" (Revised ed. 1997), 48 illustrated pages ISBN 1 873809 08 5 Price £3.30. An explorer's guide to 62 water sources around the Malvern Hills. |
Cora Weaver & Bruce Osborne "Aquae Malvernensis" (1994) 248 pages with b&w illustrations ISBN 1 873809 07 7 Price £12.99. A detailed history and topography of the springs & fountains of the Malvern Hills (8-figure grid references) plus an account of the difficulties of introducing a public water supply in the nineteenth century. |
| Cora Weaver, "A Short Guide to Malvern as a Spa Town." 2nd ed. (1996) 15 pages, ISBN 1 873809 17 4 Price £1.95. An entertaining glimpse at the life of a nineteenth-century water cure patient and their doctors. A map shows the locations of the main water cure establishments. Designed as a day or weekend guide. |
Cora Weaver, "The Priory Gatehouse of Great Malvern" (1993) 18 illustrated pages ISBN 1 873809 06 9 Price £2.00 An illustrated guide to the history and architecture of Malvern's second oldest building, the late fifteenth-century gatehouse to the Benedictine priory. |
"50 Years" (1998), 61 pages, ISBN 1 873809 13 1 Price £3.50 - poetry and prose from Malvern Writers Circle. |
| Janet Grierson "Dr Wilson and his Malvern Hydro" (1998), 142 pages plus 9 prelims; 24 b&w illustrations, ISBN 1 873809 32 8 Price £8.50 — well researched look at the life and work of Dr Wilson, a hydrotherapy pioneer in England; also investigates the work of other hydrotherapy doctors in Malvern the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
Cora Weaver "A Short Guide to Charles Darwin & Evelyn Waugh in Malvern" (1991), 12 pages, ISBN 1 873809 01 8 Price £1.75 brief, with illustrations & map, designed for day or weekend visitors to Malvern. Darwin came to Malvern for spa treatment on numerous occasions. He brought his daughter here for similar treatment in 1851. |
Cora Weaver "A Short Guide to Edward Elgar in Malvern" (2nd ed.1997) 15 illustrated pages ISBN 1 873809 27 1 Price £1.95. A guide with map to places where Elgar lived or visited, his friends and his music. |
Cora Weaver "A Short Guide to Elizabeth Barrett & George Bernard Shaw in Malvern" (1992) 15 pages, ISBN 1 873809 03 4 Price £1.75 - 75 brief, with illustrations & map, designed for day or weekend visitors to Malvern. A guide to where they stayed, people and places they visited and what they wrote in or for Malvern. |
