by Deborah Kellaway (Author), Deborah Kellaway (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Virago
Published: 09 Apr 1996
ISBN 10: 1860491537
ISBN 13: 9781860491535