Jessica Douglas Home

Jessica Douglas Home is author of Violet (Harvill Press, 1997) and Once Upon Another Time (Michael Russell, 2000), her personal account of the dissident movements in Romania and the Czech Republic in the years before 1989. She is trustee of the Mihai Eminescu Trust.

Saxon villages: restoration is for the future

The work of restoring the Romanian Saxon Transylvanian villages, as undertaken by the Mihai Eminescu Trust is not romantic or nostalgic: it is about establishing sustainable, proud livelihoods

By Jessica Douglas Home

/ 5 Sep 2010

Dream-parks and theme-parks

I first heard of the Siebenburgen seven towns district of Romania from a Bucharest dissident, editor of a German-language newspaper. He spoke sadly of the fate of the Saxon farmers

By Jessica Douglas Home

/ 4 Jun 2002