Bibliograph

One writer's garden, Eudora Welty's home place, Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown ; photographs by Langdon Clay

Type

Label

One writer's garden, Eudora Welty's home place, Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown ; photographs by Langdon Clay

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

One writer's garden

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

697979484

Responsibility statement

Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown ; photographs by Langdon Clay

Sub title

Eudora Welty's home place

Summary

The authors of One Writer's Garden also draw connections between Welty's gardening and her writing. They show how the garden echoed the prevailing style of Welty's mother's generation, which in turn mirrored wider trends in American life: Progressive-era optimism, a rising middle class, prosperity, new technology, women's clubs, garden clubs, streetcar suburbs, civic beautification, conservation, plant introductions, and garden writing. The authors illustrate this garden's history--and the broader story of how American gardens evolved in the early twentieth century-with images from contemporary garden literature, seed catalogs, and advertisements, as well as unique historic photographs. Noted landscape photographer Langdon Clay captures the restored garden through the seasons

Classification