Emily Dickinson's gardening life The plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
Book - 2019
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 small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson's deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson's poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary an...d historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America's most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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Portland, Oregon :
Timber Press
2019.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Item Description
- Originally published by McGraw-Hill in 2005 as Emily Dickinson's Gardens : A Celebration of a Poet and Gardener.
- Physical Description
- 267 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781604698220
- 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.