Green Retreats
Title | Green Retreats PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Bending |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2013-06-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107435404 |
Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world – whether willed or enforced – and of their engagement with the literature of gardening. Beginning with a survey of cultural representations of the woman in the garden, Stephen Bending goes on to tell the stories, through their letters, diaries and journals, of some extraordinary eighteenth-century women including Elizabeth Montagu and the Bluestocking circle, the gardening neighbours Lady Caroline Holland and Lady Mary Coke, and Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, renowned for her scandalous withdrawal from the social world. The emphasis on how gardens were used, as well as designed, allows the reader to rethink the place of women in the eighteenth century, and understand what was at stake for those who stepped beyond the flower garden and created their own landscapes.
Green Retreats
Title | Green Retreats PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Bending |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2013-06-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107040027 |
This lively and beautifully illustrated account follows some remarkable eighteenth-century women in their gardens.
Green Retreats
Title | Green Retreats PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Sidney Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Gardens |
ISBN |
Green Angel
Title | Green Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Hoffman |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 51 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0545231248 |
Alice Hoffman is at her magical best in a new novel about loss and healing.When her family is lost in a terrible disaster, 15-yr-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she'd once been as she inks ravens into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters -- with a ghostly white dog and a mute boy -- that Green relearns the lessons of love and begins to heal as she tells her own story.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Title | The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Lamb |
Publisher | London, Methuen |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson
Title | Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Austin Allibone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Quotations, English |
ISBN |
Poetical Works
Title | Poetical Works PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander McLachlan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | |
ISBN |