Unearthing The Secret Garden

The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett

Unearthing The Secret Garden
Marta McDowell
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Hardback
h203 x 160mm - 320pg
12 Oct 2021 US
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9781604699906
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Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children' s classic The Secret Garden. Marta McDowell has revealed the many ways gardening has inspired some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In her latest, she does the same with Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of the classic children' s book The Secret Garden. Unearthing The Secret Garden starts by chronicling Frances Hodgson Burnett' s childhood and early life, with a focus on her growing interest in gardens and her development as a writer. McDowell also shares details of three gardens Hodgson Burnett created in Kent, Long Island, and Bermuda. A guide to the plants featured in The Secret Garden will delight gardeners. And in a unique addition, McDowell transcribes Hodgson Burnett' s delightful essay, "In the Garden," which was published shortly after her death. AUTHOR: Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. 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. Her particular interest is in authors and their gardens, the connection between the pen and the trowel. 150 photographs and illustrations
"Blooming with photos, illustrations, and botanical paintings, McDowell' s gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world' s most famous authors. "--Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett"McDowell' s beautiful writing and research take us all on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of a blooming world that has only existed in our imaginations, until now. "--Keri Wilt, motivational speaker and writer and great-great-granddaughter of Frances Hodgson Burnett"McDowell' s blending of this abiding fiction with its author' s real life is safe and sure. New readers--young and old--will be propelled into a faraway enchanted world now magically reawakened more than a hundred years on. "--David Wheeler, editor, Hortus "With a sprightly tone, infectious enthusiasm, and a professor' s penchant for scholarly detail, McDowell brings keen insight and critical assessment to the life and works of this beloved author. " --Booklist "Rich in details, lavish with illustrations, including many from the story' s various print versions, this book is a must-have for anyone whose first horticulture passions were triggered by hat gateway drug to gardening, otherwise known as The Secret Garden. " --The Washington Gardener "Unearthing the Secret Garden brings Burnett to life as someone the reader would happily meet, in or out of her various gardens, to sit in the shade with a cheerful robin nearby while talking of roses and flowers and life. " --Bellwood Gardens "Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography. As in Burnett' s enclosures at Maytham Hall, one is forever turning a corner--or, rather, a page--and coming across a fresh vista. " --The Wall Street Journal "From walled and terraced flower beds can sprout beloved children' s fiction, as the historian Marta McDowell chronicles in Unearthing the Secret Garden. " --The New York Times "Marta McDowell' s gorgeous, deeply felt tribute to the timeless tale. Filled with photographs of the flowers, plants, and gardens that inspired Burnett. " --The Literary Ladies Guide
Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. 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. Her particular interest is in authors and their gardens, the connection between the pen and the trowel.
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ISBN-13: 9781604699906
Published: 12 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Timber Press
Publisher: Timber Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 203mm
Width: 160mm
Pages: 320

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