A Garden of Pleasure

By:

Eleanor Vere Boyle

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

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Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916), who re-created the gardens of Huntercombe Manor in Berkshire in the 1870s, was a talented artist as well as an author, illustrating both poetry and books for children. Coming from an aristocratic family, and in later life a friend of Queen Alexandra, she produced sketches and watercolours admired by Ruskin and Landseer, and Tennyson and Bulwer Lytton contributed to her anthologies of poetry. One of a number of late nineteenth-century female writers on gardens (many of whose works have been reissued in this series), she was interested in the natural history of the garden rather than in botanical principles. This work, published in 1895, describes the sights, sounds and smells of her garden through the seasons of 1894, with frequent digressions on the weather, birds and animals, the folklore connected with individual plants, literary references, and observations on other gardens visited, in both Britain and Europe.

Release date Australia

March 5th, 2015

Author

Eleanor Vere Boyle

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

28 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

242

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture

Dimensions

138x220x15

ISBN-13

9781108076609

Product ID

21894872

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