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Author Wilson, Emily Herring.

Title No one gardens alone : a life of Elizabeth Lawrence / Emily Herring Wilson
Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 334 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Concord Library
Concord library.
Contents Contents -- Prologue -- ONE Family History -- TWO Childhood 1904�1916 -- THREE Raleigh 1916�1922 -- FOUR Barnard College 1922�1926 -- FIVE Peter and Elizabeth -- SIX A Time for Reflection 1926�1928 -- SEVEN Return to Raleigh 1928 -- EIGHT Remembering -- NINE Writing Poetry -- TEN Garden Design -- ELEVEN A Writer�s Life 1932�1942 -- TWELVE Writing A Southern Garden -- THIRTEEN The Church -- FOURTEEN Ann Lawrence -- FIFTEEN The Move to Charlotte 1948 -- SIXTEEN The Little Bulbs -- SEVENTEEN Writing a Garden Column
EIGHTEEN Gardens in WinterNINETEEN Elizabeth and Her Friends -- TWENTY A Friendship in Letters 1958�1977 -- TWENTY-ONE The Weltys of Jackson, Mississippi -- TWENTY-TWO Gardening for Love and A Rock Garden in the South -- TWENTY-THREE Closing the Garden Gate 1984 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary "Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985) lived a singular, often contradictory life. She was a traditional southerner; a successful, independent garden writer with her own newspaper column and numerous books to her credit; a dutiful daughter who cared for her elders and lived with her mother; a landscape architect; a passionate poet; a friend of literary figures like Eudora Welty and Joseph Mitchell; and a very private woman whose recently discovered letters illuminate aspects of her mystery. Lawrence earned many fans during her lifetime and gained even more after her death with the reissue of many of her classic books."
"Now, one hundred years after her birth, No One Gardens Alone tells for the first time the story of this fascinating woman. Like classic biographies of literary figures such as Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, this book reveals Lawrence in all her complexity and establishes her, at last, as one of the premier gardeners and garden writers of the twentieth century."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Awards (nominated), 2005
Subject Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985.
SUBJECT Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985. fast (OCoLC)fst00131944
Subject Gardeners -- North Carolina -- Charlotte -- Biography
Women gardeners -- North Carolina -- Charlotte -- Biography
ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
GARDENING -- Garden Design.
GARDENING -- Landscape.
Gardeners.
Women gardeners.
North Carolina -- Charlotte.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004006384
ISBN 9780807085677
0807085677
9780807085639
0807085634
9780807085608
080708560X