Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present

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Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present Author: Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Little Brown Book Group
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Pages: 448 Illustrations and other contents: Section: 8, Integrated: 16, col, some b/w photos Language: English ISBN: 9781844084630 Category:

From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today’s gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women gardeners have grown vegetables for their kitchens and herbs for their medicine cupboards. They have been footnotes in the horticultural annals for specimens collected abroad. They taught young women about gardening twenty-five years before women’s horticultural schools officially existed. And their influence on the style of our gardens, frequently unacknowledged, survives to the present day. From these triumphs to the battles fought against male-dominated institutions, from the horticultural pioneers to the bringers of change in society’s attitudes, this book is a celebration of the best of the species — gardening women.

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** 'An authoritative writer . . . it is about time that women gardeners received the generous tribute awarded to them by Horwood's splendid book . . . lively, superbly researched and highly enjoyable * LITERARY REVIEW * ** 'Women, like weeds, are everywhere in gardening history. In gathering their stories and describing their influences and achievements Horwood has done a terrific, pioneering job. Beautifully structured and cogently written, GARDENING WOMEN is as rich, f * THE TIMES * ** 'For anyone interested in the long and fascinating history of women and their gardens, Horwood's book, with its cast scope . . . and plethora of fascinating detail, is an admirable starting point * DAILY MAIL * ** 'An interesting, well-told story * FINANCIAL TIMES *

Author Biography

Catherine Horwood is honorary research fellow of the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway and has been a visiting fellow at Yale. She has won many prizes for her own gardens and was an honorary assistant organiser of the National Gardens Scheme for London.