The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Kellaway, Kellaway Deborah
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780349008653
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00865-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 224 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Gardening, GARDENING / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Gender studies: women and girls