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The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners
Deborah Kellaway (Ed.)
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Description for The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners
Hardcover. The Virago Book of Women Gardeners From diggers and weeders, to plantswomen and landscape designers, women have contributed greatly to the world of gardening. This book contains collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, from writers including Colette, Germaine Greer, Vita Sackville-West, and Dorothy Wordsworth Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 32. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349008653
SKU
V9780349008653
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Deborah Kellaway (Ed.)
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!
Reviews for The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners
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 Kellaway's intelligent and tender book enlarges the sense of human possibility.
OBSERVER A glorious and fertile compendium.
INDEPENDENT Green thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll to Germaine Greer- a delight for lovers of gardening and literature.
WOMAN AND HOME
Lynne Truss, SUNDAY TIMES Kellaway's intelligent and tender book enlarges the sense of human possibility.
OBSERVER A glorious and fertile compendium.
INDEPENDENT Green thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll to Germaine Greer- a delight for lovers of gardening and literature.
WOMAN AND HOME