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DescriptionFrom 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. ReviewsWomen'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" |