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Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Title
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet / Marta McDowell.
- Author
- McDowell, Marta
- Publication
- Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2019.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-12066 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 267 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener--sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson's deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson's poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America's most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.
- Subjects
- Gardening
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
- Poets, American > Homes and haunts
- Botany in literature
- Flowers in literature
- Biographies
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 > Knowledge > Botany
- Gardening > Massachusetts > Amherst > History
- Massachusetts > Amherst
- History
- Poets, American > Homes and haunts > Massachusetts > Amherst
- Gardens in literature
- Botany
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 > Knowledge > Gardening
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- Originally published by McGraw-Hill in 2005 as Emily Dickinson's Gardens : A Celebration of a Poet and Gardener.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index.
- Contents
- Preface to the revised edition -- Introduction -- The turning of the year -- Early spring : A gardener's home and family -- Late spring : The education of a gardener -- Early summer : A gardener's travels -- Midsummer : A gardener's ground -- Late summer : A hedge away -- Autumn : A gardener's town -- Winter : Requiem for a gardener -- A poet's gardens -- Planting a poet's garden -- Visiting a poet's garden -- An annotated list of Emily Dickinson's plants -- Afterword -- Sources and citations -- A note on the botanical artists -- Acknowledgements -- Photo and illustration credits -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-12066
- ISBN
- 9781604698220
- 1604698225
- OCLC
- 1078886283
- Author
- McDowell, Marta, author.
- Title
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet / Marta McDowell.
- Publisher
- Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2019.
- Edition
- Revised edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-12066