The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

by Deborah Kellaway (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780349008653
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

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!

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Weeders and Diggers 1

Advisers and Designers 25

Plantswomen 57

Colourists 99

Countrywomen 133

Towns women 155

Visitors and Travellers 187

Kitchen Gardeners 211

Flower Arrangers 233

Visionaries 255

Sources 285

Acknowledgements 293

Biographical Notes 297

Author Index 317

Editorial Reviews

A glorious and fertile compendium.—INDEPENDENT

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

Green thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll to Germaine Greer- a delight for lovers of gardening and literature.—WOMAN AND HOME

Kellaway's intelligent and tender book enlarges the sense of human possibility.—OBSERVER

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