Taken from gardening books, novels and poems by women published between 1860 and 1935, this book reveals a passion for gardening. There is practical advice from gardeners such as Gertrude Jekyll, and passages by writers and poets such as George Eliot, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.
Buy it for the picture.
Stay for the writings.
Learn about the writers.
This will make a great coffee table book as it is small but powerful. The subtitle says it all – Women writing about gardens.
You will recognize many of the writers. Others, such as Anne Hassar, have only published here.
And the back of the book is a short biography of each writer.
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