An author & a gardener : the gardens and friendship of Edith Wharton and Laurence Johnston /

An author & a gardener : the gardens and friendship of Edith Wharton and Laurence Johnston /

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In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton's intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence 'Johnnie' Johnston, the creator of two famous gardens, at Hidcote Manor, Gloucestersh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruff, Allan R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Windgather Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Homes and haunts.
Johnston, Lawrence Waterbury, > 1871-1958.
1900-1999
Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Gardens > England > Gloucestershire.
Gardeners > England > Biography.
Hidcote Manor Garden (England)
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The New York beginnings
  • The arbiter of taste
  • 'The Mount' and Italian gardens
  • The making of a gardener
  • The Cotswolds and the American diaspora
  • Edith Wharton in England
  • Making the garden at Hidcote
  • The First World War
  • Hidcote and friends
  • Edith Wharton and her French gardens
  • Johnston and the French Riviera
  • Plants and plant collecting
  • Lawrence Johnston: The Diary years 1929-1932
  • The final chapter
  • Afterwards
  • Conclusions and legacies.

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