Gerald Brenan - The Estate
Gerald Brenan joined the Army in 1914, fought at the
Somme and Passchendale, was twice wounded and awarded both the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. In 1919 he moved to a remote village in the
Sierra Nevada an experience he described in
South from Granada. In 1931 he married the American poet Gamel Woolsey, with whom he lived near
Malaga. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and also broadcast to
Spain for the BBC. In 1943 Brenan published
The Spanish Labyrinth, his classic study of the origins of the civil war. He and Gamel revisited
Spain in 1949, described in
The Face of Spain, and returned to live there in 1953. Brenan died in 1987 unrivalled as the most eminent English language writer on Spanish history and culture.
BOOKS









THE SPANISH LABYRINTH
THE FACE OF SPAIN
THE LITERATURE OF THE SPANISH PEOPLE - FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
SOUTH FROM GRANADA: SEVEN YEARS IN AN ANDALUSIAN VILLAGE
A LIFE OF ONE'S OWN: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
THE LIGHTHOUSE ALWAYS SAYS YES
ST JOHN OF THE CROSS: HIS LIFE AND POETRY
A PERSONAL RECORD, 1920-1972
THOUGHTS IN A DRY SEASON: A MISCELLANY