Title & Author:

Gertrude Jekyll : essays on the life of a working amateur / edited by Michael Tooley and Primrose Arnander.

Publication:

Witton-le-Wear, Co. Durham, England : Michaelmas Books, 1995.

Description:

xi, 245 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Errata slip inserted.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Gertrude Jekyll, a working amateur / Michael Tooley and Primrose Arnander -- Jekyll family history / Primrose Arnander -- Edward and Julia Jekyll and their family / Annabel Freyberg -- Prelude and fugue / Joan Edwards -- Gertrude Jekyll's workbook / Fenja Gunn -- Gertrude Jekyll and the arts and crafts movement / Mavis Batey -- The Munstead Wood survey, 1991 / Paul Everson -- Miss Jekyll's Munstead Wood / Martin Wood -- The plant nursery at Munstead Wood / Michael Tooley -- Plants selected and bred by Gertrude Jekyll / Michael Tooley -- Gertrude Jekyll: a gardener ahead of her time / Richard Bisgrove -- Gertrude Jekyll as a photographer / Heather Angel -- Gertrude Jekyll's American gardens / Susan Schnare and Rudy J. Favretti -- A pair of gardening boots / June Swann -- Postscript / David McKenna

Summary:

[A] collection of essays by authorities on Gertrude Jekyll's life and times and by experts on gardens and garden history from both sides of the Atlantic. The book describes 300 years of Jekyll family history, including the family's emigration to America in the eighteenth century. The book's subtitle "Essays on the life of a working amateur" echoes Gertrude Jekyll's description of herself in her first book, Wood and Garden, published in 1899. Included are contributions by three members of the Jekyll family, two great great nieces, Primrose Arnander and Annabel Freyberg, and a great nephew, David McKenna, the last surviving member of the family to have known her well, who has written the foreword and postscript. Much of this information is hitherto unpublished and is made available through the co-operation of the Jekyll Estate, as well as personal and family memories of Gertrude Jekyll, her sister and brothers. -- Cover.

ISBN:

0946426066
9780946426065

Subject:

Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.
Gardeners England Biography.
Landscape architects England Biography.
Jardiniers Angleterre Biographies.
Architectes paysagistes Angleterre Biographies.
Gardeners
Landscape architects
Aménagement paysager.
Histoire.
Jardin.
England
Gardens Landscape design
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

Biographies
Biographie (Descripteur de forme)

Added entries:

Tooley, M. J.
Arnander, Primrose.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109126
Call No.: ID SB470.J38.G48; ID:96-B1433
Status: Available