No one gardens alone
Subtitle: a life of Elizabeth Lawrence
By: Emily Herring Wilson
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780807085608; 9780807085639
Subjects: Gardeners; Women gardeners; Biography
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (299-315) and index.