Emily Dickinson's gardening life the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener--sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a s...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Portland, Oregon :
Timber Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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| Summary: | Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener--sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson's deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson's poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America's most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published by McGraw-Hill in 2005 as Emily Dickinson's Gardens : A Celebration of a Poet and Gardener. |
| Physical Description: | 267 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781604698220 1604698225 |
| Author Notes: | Marta McDowell's writing has appeared in The New York Times , Woman's Day, Country Gardening , and elsewhere . Her previous books include Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life , All the Presidents' Gardens , The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder , Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life , Unearthing The Secret Garden , and Gardening Can Be Murder . She consults for public gardens and private clients, writes and lectures on gardening topics, and teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, where she studied landscape design. She lives, writes, and gardens in Chatham, New Jersey. |
