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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Portland, Oregon :
Timber Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface to the revised edition
- Introduction
- The turning of the year
- Early spring : A gardener's home and family
- Late spring : The education of a gardener
- Early summer : A gardener's travels
- Midsummer : A gardener's ground
- Late summer : A hedge away
- Autumn : A gardener's town
- Winter : Requiem for a gardener
- A poet's gardens
- Planting a poet's garden
- Visiting a poet's garden
- An annotated list of Emily Dickinson's plants
- Afterword
- Sources and citations
- A note on the botanical artists
- Acknowledgements
- Photo and illustration credits
- Index.
