The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

Author(s): Deborah Kellaway

Gardening

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.


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Women's gardening writing at its finest - Authors include Hester Mallin, Germaine Greer and Sylvia  Plath. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour photographs and paintings a must for any women’s literature lover and gardener alike.  - Alison, The Book Grocer

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"

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!

General Fields

  • : 9780349008653
  • : Little Brown
  • : Virago
  • : November 2016
  • : December 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Deborah Kellaway
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 635.082