The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners
, by Kellaway, DeborahNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780349008653 | 0349008655
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/2/2017
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.