Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and EighteenthCentury Culture,Used
Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and EighteenthCentury Culture,Used
Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and EighteenthCentury Culture,Used

Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and EighteenthCentury Culture,Used

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Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenthcentury 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 eighteenthcentury women including Elizabeth Montagu and the Bluestocking circle, the gardening neighbors 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.

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