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The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

by Deborah Kellaway (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

    $17.01
Synopsis

From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed 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-humoured 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.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Reissue
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 01 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 0349008655
ISBN 13: 9780349008653

Media Reviews
A glorious and fertile compendium.--INDEPENDENT
Kellaway's intelligent and tender book enlarges the sense of human possibility.--OBSERVER
Green thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll to Germaine Greer- a delight for lovers of gardening and literature.--WOMAN AND HOME
Boldly editied, the equivalent of a well-planted border with not a gap of bare earth, all season-colour interest, and no visible pea-sticks.--Lynne Truss, SUNDAY TIMES
Author Bio
Deborah Kellaway was born in Australia and came to Oxford in the late 1940s to read English and spent the rest of her working life teaching English Literature. She later developed a passion for gardening has been writing about it ever since!