From diggers and weeders,to artists andcolourists,writers and dreamers to trend-setters,plantswomen tolandscape designers,women have contributed to the world of gardeningand gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway,author ofThe Making of an EnglishCountry GardenandFavourite Flowers ,has collected extracts from the18th century to the present day,to create a book that is replete withanecdotes and good-humoured advice. Colette,Margery Fish,GermaineGreer,Eleanor Sinclair Rohde,Vita Sackville-West,Rosemary Verey,Edith Wharton and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers representedin this book.
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349008653Number of pages: 352Weight: 485 gDimensions: 224 x 174 x 32 mm
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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 TIMESKellaway's intelligent and tender book enlarges the sense of human possibility. - OBSERVERGreen thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll to Germaine Greer- a delight for lovers of gardening and literature. - WOMAN AND HOME
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