UID:
almahu_9948234335102882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 220 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781107741805 (ebook)
Serie:
Cambridge library collection. Botany and horticulture
Inhalt:
Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916), who re-created the gardens of Huntercombe Manor in Berkshire in the 1870s, was a talented artist as well as an author, illustrating both poetry and books for children. Coming from an aristocratic family, and in later life a friend of Queen Alexandra, she produced sketches and watercolours admired by Ruskin and Landseer, and Tennyson and Bulwer Lytton contributed to her anthologies of poetry. One of a number of late nineteenth-century female writers on gardens (many of whose works have been reissued in this series), she was interested in the natural history of the garden rather than in botanical principles. This work, published in 1895, describes the sights, sounds and smells of her garden through the seasons of 1894, with frequent digressions on the weather, birds and animals, the folklore connected with individual plants, literary references, and observations on other gardens visited, in both Britain and Europe.
Anmerkung:
Originally published in London by Elliot Stock in 1895.
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Preface -- 1. January -- 2. February -- 3. March -- 4. April -- 5. May -- 6. June -- 7. July -- 8. August -- 9. September -- 10. October -- 11. November -- 12. December -- 13. A mother's dream on Christmas Eve -- 14. Christmas Day.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781108076609
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107741805
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107741805
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