An Almost Impossible Thing
The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners
$29.94
- Paperback
- Release Date
3 April 2024
Summary
The paperback edition of the bestselling, acclaimed book.
While working at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS, on the grounds that she was female. Appalled, and intrigued to find out what became of Olive, Fiona began to research the wider story of early female professional gardeners and discovered a group of pioneers whose struggles changed forever the rights and opportunities for …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915068378 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915068371 |
| Author: | Fiona Davison |
| Publisher: | Little Toller Books |
| Imprint: | Little Toller Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
‘I devoured Davison’s book…the realities of domestic life for young women to the end of the First World War are vividly evoked on every page of the book, making it a revealing document of social history.’ Ysenda Maxtone Graham, TLS; ‘Fiona Davison has written an engaging, thought-provoking account of “quiet revolutionaries hidden in plain sight”: the unmarried sisters and daughters who, in the dog days of the nineteenth century and beyond, chose to dedicate their lives to horticulture. Delightful, quirky and very human details animate Davison’s well researched narrative.’ Matthew Dennison, The Daily Telegraph
Fiona Davison
Fiona Davison is the Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the Royal Horticulture Society. She is also the author of the acclaimed and best-selling book The Hidden Horticulturists: The Working Class Men Who Shaped Britain’s Gardens.
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