The Virago Book of Women Gardeners - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860491537 ISBN 13: 9781860491535

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher

Deborah Kellaway¹s splendid collection of garden writing is at once a literary delight, a visual pleasure, and a practical companion bursting with inspiring, good-humored advice. Celebrating the skill and creativity of women gardeners throughout the last century, this beautifully illustrated anthology features the work of writers like Elizabeth von Arnim, Germaine Greer, Sylvia Plath, Vita Sackville-West, and Edith Wharton. Ranging widely, from diggers and weeders to plantswomen and landscape designers, this enchanting volume will be welcomed by all gardeners, armchair and otherwise.

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!

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860491537
• ISBN 13: 9781860491535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Kellaway Deborah