The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners
$35.75
- Hardcover
352 pages
- Release Date
8 November 2016
Summary
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 Sinclai…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349008653 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349008655 |
| Author: | Deborah Kellaway |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 485g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 174mm x 32mm |
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A glorious and fertile compendium.– INDEPENDENT
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 HOMEAbout The Author
Deborah Kellaway
Deborah Kellaway was born in Australia and came to Oxford in the late 1940s to read English. She spent the rest of her working life teaching English Literature. She later developed a passion for gardening and has been writing about it ever since!
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