An edition of The well-connected gardener (2010)

The well-connected gardener

a biography of Alicia Amherst, founder of garden history

The well-connected gardener
Sue Minter, Sue Minter
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An edition of The well-connected gardener (2010)

The well-connected gardener

a biography of Alicia Amherst, founder of garden history

"Alicia Amherst was a distinguished Victorian and Edwardian horticulturist whose seminal book, A History of Gardening in England, was enormously influential in its time, running to three editions, and can still be enjoyed by today's readers - if they can find a copy. For this, and her other published works have not been reprinted since the 1930s and are now rather rare. In particular, London Parks and Gardens (1907) and Historic Gardens of England (1938) are important historical records, the first of which has never really been superseded in the comprehensive treatment of its subject. She was the recipient of many honours during her lifetime, but the one which gave her the greatest pleasure was being given the freedom of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners in 1896. This is the first biography of Alicia Amherst and it reveals a woman of remarkable gifts and energy. Not only was she passionate about plants and gardens, being both an observant botanist and a very practical gardener, she was active in politics, becoming prominent in the British Women's Emigration Association and, after World War I, in the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women. Coming from a privileged background she was, in every sense, 'well-connected' - and she used her connections well, as this volume shows."--Publisher's description.

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Publisher
Book Guild Pub.
Language
English
Pages
124

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Table of Contents

Didlington Hall: inception of a gardener, 1865-75
A learned, charitable, travelling, and increasingly political life, 1875-90
Egypt, Percy Newberry and the Howard Carter connection, 1890-5
A history of gardening in England, 1891-7
The women's issue: horticultural colleges for ladies, and women's suffrage, 1895-1910
Marriage, children and more writing, 1898-1907
Empire, town and country, 1899-1909
The deluge
Out of action, then war work
Lytchett Heath: a garden at last
Tutankhamun comes good for Howard Carter
Colonial travel
A literary reprise in the 1930s.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-120) and index.

Published in
Sussex

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
635.092
Library of Congress
SB63.C43 M56 2010, SB63, SB

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 124 p., [32] p. of plates :
Number of pages
124

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24923322M
ISBN 10
1846245133
ISBN 13
9781846245138
LCCN
2011431070
OCLC/WorldCat
649804347

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