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Unearthing The secret garden : the plants and places that inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett / Marta McDowell.
McDowell delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the writer who dominated the literary world of her time. A lover of flowers and gardens, Burnett's path to literary triumph was a long one. McDowell reminds us why Burnett's 1911 novel, The secret garden, continues to touch readers after more than a century.
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- ISBN: 9781604699906
- ISBN: 1604699906
- Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Before The secret garden. The locked door: England & America (1849-1897) ; Finding the key: Maytham Hall, Kent (1898-1908) -- Inside The secret garden. A gardener's guide to The secret garden: Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire -- After The secret garden. Nest building: Plandome Park, New York (1909-1920 ; A new bit of earth: Clifton Heights, Bermuda (1912-1920) ; When the sun went down: Clifton Heights & Plandome Park (1921-1924) -- Outside The secret garden. Further garden writings of Frances Hodgson Burnett ; Frances's plants: an annotated list -- Afterword: Sowing seeds / by Keri Wilt. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. Biographies. |
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Unearthing the Secret Garden : The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Unearthing the Secret Garden : The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
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 , and Unearthing The Secret Garden . 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.
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