Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Miss Frances Edge McIlvaine is our next Lost Lady of Garden Writing. As with the other lost ladies, at first I thought there wouldn't be much to find out about Frances, or Fannie as her friends …
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Continuing through the authors of The Little Garden Series of books (edited by Mrs. Francis King), we find our next Lost Lady of Garden Writing, Dorothy Giles, who wrote The Little Kitchen Garden …
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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 …
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"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 …
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(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 …
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