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Jean Galbraith : writer in a valley / Meredith Fletcher.

By: Series: BiographyPublisher: Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxii, 292 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), 1 map, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781922235398
Other title:
  • Writer in a valley
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635.0994 23
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Settling in the Valley -- 2.Childhood -- 3.Becoming a Botanist -- 4.Making the Garden -- 5.Correa -- 6.Grandfather -- 7.Writing the Garden -- 8.From Three to One in the Garden -- 9.Wildflowers of Victoria -- 10.Freelancing -- 11.Changes -- 12.A Commission from Collins -- 13.Fame -- 14.Old Age.
Summary: This is the story of one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing career that spanned seventy years, Jean Galbraith turned botanical writing into a literary art and was tireless in spreading knowledge of native plants. This is also the story of a writer and her place, a valley in Gippsland, Victoria. The valley was fundamental to her being and the source of her inspiration.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 635.0994 GAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68360

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-284) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Settling in the Valley -- 2.Childhood -- 3.Becoming a Botanist -- 4.Making the Garden -- 5.Correa -- 6.Grandfather -- 7.Writing the Garden -- 8.From Three to One in the Garden -- 9.Wildflowers of Victoria -- 10.Freelancing -- 11.Changes -- 12.A Commission from Collins -- 13.Fame -- 14.Old Age.

This is the story of one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing career that spanned seventy years, Jean Galbraith turned botanical writing into a literary art and was tireless in spreading knowledge of native plants. This is also the story of a writer and her place, a valley in Gippsland, Victoria. The valley was fundamental to her being and the source of her inspiration.

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