The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

Author(s): Kellaway, Deborah
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 01/09/2016,
Pagination: 352 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780349008653,
Description:

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 in this book.