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| Rosa 'Robin Hood' 25 August 2025 |
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The frontspiece of my Robin Hood by Rose Yeatman Woolf has my name in my mother’s handwriting and the date is 1973. I believe I already had the book before I had it rebound in leather by a Frenchman called Millioud in Mexico City.
I cannot explain why at the bottom it has a rubber stamp that reads Mitchell’s Book Store – Buenos Aires. This was a bookstore where my parents book all their books in English. Another good client of the bookstore was Jorge Luís Borges. There is no copyright listed anywhere but my edition is a first edition from 1916. I wrote previously that my father read me from this book. The link is below.
On another page it reads: To dear Betty wishing her a very happy birthday – from Laura.
I could not resist in scanning the book when I noticed that my Rosa ‘Robin Hood’ was nicely blooming in my back lane.
I have written about the man who introduced this rose but there is also this:
Rosa 'Robin Hood' rose was introduced by the Rev. Joseph Hardwick Pemberton (United Kingdom) before 1927 and released by J & A Bentall/Brokenback Roses in 1927. Pemberton was a Hybrid Musk rose breeder, and his sister, also a rose enthusiast, continued to release his roses after his death in 1926, introducing 'Robin Hood' the following year.
And to end this, I was lucky to go on a journalist trip to Shropshire some years ago where in Nottingham I was able to photograph the Robin Hood statue with my Widelux
