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Hill, May Brawley.

Grandmother's garden : the old-fashioned American garden, 1865-1915 / May Brawley Hill.

New York : Abrams, ©1995.

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

In Grandmother's Garden: The Old-fashioned American Garden 1865-1915, art historian May Brawley Hill traces the development of this indigenous garden style in more than 150 period paintings and photographs and in a vast range of primary sources, including poems, letters, popular journalism, and garden writing. Women make up a large part of this history, because for many gardening was a refuge from the confines of their lives. The writers Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Anna Bartlett Warner are part of the story, as are the photographers Frances and Mary Allen, and Wallace Nutting. Notables in the Arts and Crafts movement include Gustav Stickley, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, and Maria Longworth Nichols.

Gardens, American -- History.

Cottage gardens -- United States -- History.

Landscape gardening -- United States -- History.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-231) and index.

Roots of grandmother's garden -- Grandmother's garden rediscovered -- American scenes and cottage gardens -- Rescuing the old place -- The colonial revival and the old-fashioned garden -- Painting grandmother's garden -- Two American cottage gardens -- The arts and crafts movement and the American cottage garden -- Cottage gardens for laborers and suburbanites -- Grandmother's garden in the middle Atlantic and South -- Grandmother's garden on the frontier -- Grandmother's garden on the Pacific coast.

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