Description
Special Issue: Gardening
The Summer 2019 special gardening issue of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
Contents
- Andrew Hann on ‘A tale of two advisors: Jemima, Marchioness Grey and the improvement of the gardens at Wrest Park in the mid-18th century’, 5
- Clare A.P. Willsdon on ‘”The lady of the garden, lawn and blackbird”: Beatrix Whistler and horticulture’, 15
- Pippa Shirley on ‘Alice de Rothschild and the gardens at Waddesdon’, 22
- Rebecca Preston and Clare Hickman on ‘Cultivation in Captivity: Gender, Class and Reform in the Promotion and Practice of Women’s Prison Gardening in England, 1900–1939’, 27
Book Reviews
- Robert Stedall, Mary Queen of Scots’ Downfall: The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword History, 2017, 33
- Nicola Tallis, Elizabeth’s Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester, London: Michael O’Mara Books, 2017, 33
- Susan Doran, Elizabeth I and Her Circle, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 34
- John Callow, Embracing the Darkness: A Cultural History of Witchcraft, London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018, 35
- Susan Boase, Loretta Bellman, Sarah Rogers & Barbara Stuchfield, Nursing Through the Years: Care and Compassion at the Royal London Hospital, Yorkshire: Pen and Sword, 2018, 36
- Jane Duffus, The Women who Built Bristol 1184-2018, Bristol: Tangent Books, 2018, 37
- Jenni Murray, A History of the World in 21 Women, London: Oneworld, 2018, 37
- Teresa Barnard, ed., Anne Seward’s Journal and Sermons, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 39
WHN Members download your free digital copy from this page.
WHN Members who have subscribed to the print edition will receive a printed copy free. The PDF edition (ISSN 2059-0164) includes high quality photographs (and in colour where available) as well as active hyper-links.