Author and a Gardener : The Gardens and Friendship of Edith Wharton and Laurence Johnston.
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Author and a Gardener : The Gardens and Friendship of Edith Wharton and Laurence Johnston.
Yazar:
Ruff, Allan R.
ISBN:
9781909686496
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1 online resource (393 pages)
İçerik:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The New York Beginnings -- The Jones Family of New York -- The Johnston and Waterbury Families -- New York's Murray Hill -- Deaths of their Fathers -- Entry into Society -- Escape from New York -- Notes and References -- Chapter 2: The Arbiter of Taste -- The Education of Edith Jones Wharton -- 'Land's End' -- Edith Wharton and the American Renaissance -- Notes and References -- Chapter 3: 'The Mount' and Italian Gardens -- The Making of 'The Mount' -- Collaboration with Beatrix (Jones) Farrand -- Reaction to the Mount and its Garden -- Peace and Contentment -- Travels in Italy -- Travels by Car -- Back to the Mount -- Farewell to the Mount -- Notes and References -- Chapter 4: The Making of a Gardener -- Education at Cambridge -- The Network of Friends -- The Second Boer War -- Johnston the Soldier -- The High Society of Gardeners -- The Purchase of Hidcote -- Notes and References -- Chapter 5: The Cotswolds and the American Diaspora -- Mary Anderson -- Alfred Parsons -- Arrival at Hidcote -- Lady Elcho and the Souls -- Notes and References -- Chapter 6: Edith Wharton in England -- Wharton and the Aristocracy -- Close Women Friends -- Henry James -- Wharton's Inner Circle -- Howard Sturgis -- Wharton and the Inner Circle -- Coopersale -- Notes and References -- Chapter 7: Making the Garden at Hidcote -- The House -- The Garden -- The Old Garden -- Influences and Friends -- The New Garden -- The Main Vista -- The Fuchsia and Pool Gardens -- Mrs Winthrop's Garden -- Travels to Egypt and Italy -- The Theatre Lawn -- The Rest of the Garden -- Notes and References -- Chapter 8: The First World War -- The Reality of War -- Mobilisation -- The First Battle of Ypres -- The Continuing Struggle -- The Final Years of the War -- Notes and References.
Chapter 9: Hidcote and Friends -- Norah Lindsay -- The Hon. Bill Barrington and the Ménage à Trois -- A Return to Hidcote -- A Changing Emphasis -- Westonbirt -- Notes and References -- Chapter 10: Edith Wharton and her French Gardens -- The Pavillon Colombe at Saint-Brice -- Hyères: Sainte-Claire -- The Garden at Ste-Claire -- A Day with Edith Wharton -- Notes and References -- Chapter 11: Johnston and the French Riviera -- Menton -- Serre de la Madone -- Life at Menton -- La Mortola -- Friends and Neighbours -- Financial Restraints -- Notes and References -- Chapter 12: Plants and Plant Collecting -- South Africa -- China, Rhododendrons and George Forrest -- Afterwards -- Notes and References -- Chapter 13: Lawrence Johnston: The Diary Years 1929-1932 -- Diary Entries for 1929 -- Diary Entries for 1932 -- Notes and References -- Chapter 14: The Final Chapter -- Correspondence with Beatrix Farrand -- Louis Bromfield and the Presbytère Saint-Étienne -- Edith Wharton's Last Years -- The Second World War -- Nancy Lindsay -- Hidcote and the National Trust -- Serre de la Madone -- Notes and References -- Chapter 15: Afterwards -- The Mount -- The Pavillon Colombe -- Sainte-Claire -- Hidcote Manor -- Serre de la Madone -- Notes and References -- Chapter 16: Conclusions and Legacies -- The Italian-inspired Garden -- The Character of Lawrence Johnston -- The Making of Hidcote -- Notes and References -- Appendix 1. Garden Books in Edith Wharton's Libraries -- Appendix 2. Chronology 1862-1960 -- Appendix 3. The Gardens to Visit -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations, Sources and Credits -- Index.
Özet:
In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton's intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence 'Johnnie' Johnston, the creator of two famous gardens, at Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, in England and Serre de la Madone, Menton, on the Cote d'Azur in the south of France. Wharton and Johnston shared not only a love of nature and gardens but also a shared experience of life. Both were private people who had had very similar childhoods, experiencing the loss of their fathers at an early age. Yet there was one aspect of their lives in which they were very different. Wharton, the writer, chose to expose her innermost thoughts and feelings and was continually in the public eye. Johnston, however, wrote nothing about his gardens, hardly permitted photographs of himself or his gardens and, though he kept an engagement diary, these, with two exceptions, have not survived. As a result Johnston remains a shadowy figure upon whom light occasionally falls from within the diaries kept by Edith Wharton. Her diaries also provide an illuminating insight into both her gardens at St-Brice, and at Hyeres, in the south of France. Wharton was a passionate gardener - an aspect not yet fully explored in previous biographies - early in her life after she had made her first garden at The Mount, at Lenox, Massachusetts in the United States, she claimed she was a better landscape designer than novelist. As fellow gardeners, Edith and Johnnie spent many hours together visiting each other's gardens, staying as house guests, plant-collecting in the Haute Massif and travelling by car to nurseries and gardens throughout England and France.In this major new critical biography Alan Ruff has brought the two together, calling upon his lifetime's knowledge of landscape and garden
design to assess the influences and techniques employed in the gardens of these two remarkable people, all set against a long-vanished, high-society background.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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