My Garden: Selected from the Letters and Recollections of Mary Russell Mitford - Hardcover

Mitford, Mary Russell; Marsack, Robyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395564735 ISBN 13: 9780395564738

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990

Synopsis

A collection of letters in which the author discusses her passion for gardening

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Mitford (1787-1855), friend to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Ruskin, was well known in England as a poet, dramatist and author of several books on country life. As Marsack ( The Cave of Making ), former editorial director of Carcanet Press, points out in her gracefully succinct introduction, Mitford's literary efforts were mainly a means of supporting her spendthrift father and ailing mother. Gardening was her great passion, to which these letters delicately attest. Arranged chronologically, selections progress from high-spirited accounts of hikes through the countryside at a vigorous age 25 to Mitford's musings on flower arrangements as an invalid sexagenarian. She was a keen observer of detail; her joy in experiencing nature is timelessly infectious. British painter Kay's abundant line drawings and vivacious watercolors for the most part provide a suitably lyrical counterpoint to the text.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0395564735
• ISBN 13: 9780395564738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Kay Pamela