TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Green retreats : women, gardens, and eighteenth-century culture
A1  - Bending, Stephen
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2468084
AB  - "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"--Provided by publisher.
SN  - 9781107040021 sidottu
KW  - 1700-luku
KW  - Gardeners : Great Britain : Biography.
KW  - Gardeners : Great Britain : Correspondence.
KW  - Gardening : Great Britain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Women gardeners : Great Britain : Biography.
KW  - Women gardeners : Great Britain : Correspondence.
KW  - Women : Great Britain : Social conditions : 18th century.
KW  - historia
KW  - identiteetti
KW  - kulttuuri
KW  - naiset
KW  - puutarhanhoito
KW  - Iso-Britannia
ER  -