lost ladies of garden writing

Meet our latest Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Hanna Rion, and the recently biography about her life, Hanna Rion: Her Life and Writings by Kitt R. McMaster III. You may rightly ask how she could be "lost" if someone wrote an entire book about her life. She met most of my criteria for being lost. There is no Wikipedia page about her, though finding one on someone isn't a complete show stopper for me, and I should note she is mentioned in the Wikipedia page for her third husband. I have … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Hanna Rion

I was researching an herb topic and decided to search through books on my bookshelf because the internet was not giving me what I was looking for. I discovered two things. First, I don't have that many books on herbs. And second, in the herb books I do have I found Dorothy Childs Hogner, another lost lady of garden writing. I realized with one search that Dorothy didn't start out writing gardening books and is probably better know for her children's books, both fiction and … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing – Dorothy Childs Hogner

I spent some time a while back searching various bookseller sites on the internet to find just about every book ever published about violets, pansies, and violas. I think I have most of them now, including Wild Violets of North America by Viola Brainerd Baird. I had never heard of Viola, but she's now our latest lost lady of garden writing. Viola's book, published in 1942, turns out to be quite the treasure, full of beautiful color illustrations of all the wild violets found in … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Viola Brainerd Baird

I've reached the point in cataloging all my books where I am adding books that have no ISBN number. I'm using an app called CLZ Books to do this. If there is a barcode on the book, it's easy to add it. I scan the barcode, wait a second for the program to find the book, then add it to my collection. For books without an ISBN number, I have to look up the book by its title or author. If someone has previously added it to their collection and uploaded that information to the cloud, the … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Grace A. Woolson

I hadn't heard of Jean Hersey, our next lost lady of garden writing, until Susan M. left a comment on my post about month-by-month books suggesting I might like Jean's book, The Shape of a Year (1967). I quickly looked up this book and decided I might indeed like it. I also discovered I could get a copy through my library, so I reserved it for pick up later. Then, even though I am methodically going through all my books to catalog them and get rid of those I think I'll never read, telling … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Jean Hersey