Lady Gardeners

Contents

Introduction: Lady Gardeners, from England to the wider world – Francesca Orestano

Chapter 1: The Eighteenth Century: three princesses at Kew Gardens – Anna Zappatini

Chapter 2: Dorothy Wordsworth: a Romantic garden in the Lake District – Anna Rudelli

Chapter 3: Jane Loudon, notes on gardening for Victorian ladies – Anna Zappatini

Chapter 4: Marianne North, the world is a garden to paint – Anna Zappatini

Chapter 5: Children and Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll: training young gardeners – Anna Rudelli

Chapter 6: Beatrix Potter, playful and scientific illustrations. From Peter Rabbit to landscape conservation – Anna Rudelli

Chapter 7: Garden and Landscape in North America: Beatrix Farrand’s inscription of Eden in the wilderness of the New World – Francesca Orestano

Chapter 8: Vita Sackville-West: a garden that looks like home, from Knole to Sissinghurst – Francesca Orestano

Chapter 9: Edna Walling and her gardening work, or ‘the happiest days of my life’ – Francesca Orestano

Chapter 10: History, design, vision: Sylvia Crowe – Francesca Orestano

Chapter 11: The adventure of an exotic species: Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard – Francesca Orestano

Chapter 12: Rosemary Verey: re-reading English history in the modern garden – Anna Zappatini

Chapter 13: Beth Chatto: going along with the environment, or ‘the right plant for the right place’ – Anna Zappatini

About the Author

Francesca Orestano, Professor of English Literature at the University of Milan, works in the areas of landscape aesthetics, garden history, Victorian and Dickens studies, art criticism and John Ruskin, the gothic and the baroque, and children’s literature.

Michael Vickers is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and Emeritus Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies at Jesus College (where he was once Garden Master). His research interests include the archaeology, history and literature of the Greek and Roman worlds.