Between the leaves : stories of Australian women, writing and gardens / Katie Holmes.
Publisher: Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 311 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781742582535 (pbk.)
- Between the leaves
- Women -- Gardeners -- Australia -- Biography
- Women authors -- Australia -- Correspondence
- Women -- Australia -- Biography
- Australian literature -- Women authors
- Women -- Australia -- Biography
- Gardens -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Women writers -- Australia
- Women gardeners -- Australia -- Biography
- Women gardeners -- Australia -- Correspondence
- Women -- Australia -- Biography -- 20th century
- Gardens
- Women
- Women -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography
- Gardens -- Australia
- Gardeners -- Australia
- Australia
- Australian miscellaneous writings
- Gardening
- 920.72 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 920.72 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 67848 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index.
Introduction: writing the garden -- Gertrude Bell: a garden's beginning -- Eva Kirk: the niece's story -- Mildred Hood: a garden of dreams -- Ann Tully: a defiant garden -- Jean Galbraith: a garden of friendship -- Winifred Stephensen: a garden of dissent -- Katharine Susannah Prichard: a garden of consolation -- Wendy O'Dowd: a garden in a marriage -- Judith Wright: the poet's gardens -- Epilogue.
Publisher's description. This is an intimate exploration into the lives of nine twentieth-century women including Judith Wright, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Winifred Stephensen and Jean Galbraith who wrote about their garden in their letters and diaries.
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