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Work InformationEmily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell (2005)
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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This is a gorgeous book, from the cover and the end papers to the illustrations that fill the pages.
McDowell incorporates Dickinson's poems flawlessly.
Readers are taken on a year-long journey into the garden, from early spring to winter, each season telling a part of Emily's life journey.
It was a joy to read, an escape from lock-down in the early spring, an inspiration as I tended our own garden, and this autumn found me dreaming of visiting The Homestead some day when this pandemic is over.
Chapters include an annotated list of Emily's plants and a visit to her home and garden.
This would be a wonderful Christmas gift for the reader of Dickinson or gardener in your life.
I have McDowell's book All the President's Gardens on Kindle. But after holding this book in my hands, with its lovely artwork and illustrations, the heft of it, I may need to buy a hardcover copy...along with Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life! ( )