An almost impossible thing : the radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners / Fiona Davison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davison, Fiona, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women gardeners--Great Britain--Biography.

Women gardeners.

Gardening--Great Britain--History.

Gardening.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies

History

Biographies.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Beaminster, Dorset] : Little Toller Books, 2023.

Summary:

"While working at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of letters from a young gardener who was denied a scholarship by the RHS, on the grounds that she was female. Appalled, and intrigued to find out what became of Olive, Fiona began to research the wider story of early female professional gardeners and discovered a group of pioneers whose struggles against patriarchy changed forever the rights and opportunities for women gardeners. Although gardens are often seen as a refuge, a place to escape from the troubles of the modern world,this book looks back to a period when British gardens were an arena for radical and far-reaching experiments. A time when the ability to cultivate land was mobilised by a group of convention-busting women who wanted to change the world"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

New women

If Eve had a spade

Garden 'boys'

Women take charge

New women for old acres

Designing green cities

No shrinking violets

The call of Empire

This enchanted place

Mrs Bull wants a spade

Thirty thousand women can save us!

At the end of the day.

Notes:

Location of publisher from publisher website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781915068217

1915068215

OCLC:

1400098542