A Garden of Pleasure - Brossura

Boyle, Eleanor Vere

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1108076602 ISBN 13: 9781108076609

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Riassunto

Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916), who re-created the gardens of Huntercombe Manor in Berkshire in the 1870s, was a talented artist as well as an author, illustrating both poetry and books for children. Coming from an aristocratic family, and in later life a friend of Queen Alexandra, she produced sketches and watercolours admired by Ruskin and Landseer, and Tennyson and Bulwer Lytton contributed to her anthologies of poetry. One of a number of late nineteenth-century female writers on gardens (many of whose works have been reissued in this series), she was interested in the natural history of the garden rather than in botanical principles. This work, published in 1895, describes the sights, sounds and smells of her garden through the seasons of 1894, with frequent digressions on the weather, birds and animals, the folklore connected with individual plants, literary references, and observations on other gardens visited, in both Britain and Europe.

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Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916), a talented artist as well as an author, who illustrated both poetry and books for children, published this work in 1895. It describes the sights, sounds and smells of her garden through the seasons, with frequent digressions on the weather, birds and animals.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. January; 2. February; 3. March; 4. April; 5. May; 6. June; 7. July; 8. August; 9. September; 10. October; 11. November; 12. December; 13. A mother's dream on Christmas Eve; 14. Christmas Day.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1108076602
• ISBN 13: 9781108076609
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 242