The Virago Book of Women Gardeners |
|
| Author:
| Kellaway, Deborah |
| Editor:
| Kellaway, Deborah |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86049-153-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group Limited
|
| Imprint: | Virago Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $21.95 |
Book Description:
|
From diggers and weeders to artists and colorists, from writers and dreamers to trend-setters, and from plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed much to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of
The Making of an English Country Garden and
Favourite Flowers, has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humored advice. Colette, Margery Fish,...
More Description From diggers and weeders to artists and colorists, from writers and dreamers to trend-setters, and from plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed much to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers, has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humored advice. Colette, Margery Fish, Germaine Greer, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, Edith Wharton, and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers represented in this book.