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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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
  • : 0.585
  • : November 2016
  • : 150mm X 223mm X 32mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Deborah Kellaway
  • : Hardback