As more irises begin to appear in the garden, I've found another lost lady of garden writing, Ella Porter McKinney, who wrote Iris in the Little Garden (1927). I will confess I didn't find very much information about Ella. Like other writers in The Little Garden series of books from the 1920s, she appears to have been involved with a local garden club—hers was in Madison, New Jersey—and the National Garden Club of America. I did figure out after many searches that she got married in … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing – Ella Porter McKinney
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Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Alice Harding
"No garden can really be too small to hold a peony. Had I but four square feet of ground at my disposal, I would plant a peony in the centre and proceed to worship." And thus we are introduced to another Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Alice Harding (Mrs. Edward Harding). Alice, as I'm going to call her throughout this blog post, was rather elusive for me to easily find information about her life until I did a search for "Alice Harding Plant." This eventually took me to an article about … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Alice Harding
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Kate L. Brewster
(Inspired by a podcast called Lost Ladies of Lit, I've decided to write an occasional post about lost ladies of garden writing.) We begin with Kate L. Brewster, simply because her book was the first one I grabbed when I was going through my personal library of old gardening books. The Little Garden for Little Money, by Kate L. Brewster (1924) is part of a series of books called The Little Garden Series edited by Mrs. Francis King (Louisa Yeomans King). Brewster notes in the forward of … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Kate L. Brewster
