Tell about night flowers : Eudora Welty's gardening letters, 1940-1949 / selected and edited by Julia Eichelberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eichelberger, Julia, 1959-

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Knowledge--Gardening.

Welty, Eudora.

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Correspondence.

Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, MI : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

Summary:

Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940's: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, and The Golden Apples. During this period, she also wrote hundreds of letters to two friends who shared her love of gardening. One friend, Diarmuid Russell, was her literary agent in New York; the other, John Robinson, was a high school classmate and an aspiring writer who served in the Army in WWII, and long the

Contents:

Introduction: gardener, friend, and artist

Editorial note

May 1940- December 1941

January 1942-August 1943

September 1943-October 1944

October 1944-December 1945

January 1946-October 1949.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-62103-958-7

OCLC:

867740303