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Author Holmes, Katie, author

Title Between the leaves : stories of Australian women, writing and gardens / Katie Holmes
Edition First edition
Published Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2011
Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2011
©2011

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 MELB  920.72 Hol/Btl  AVAILABLE
Description 311 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents 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
Summary 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
Analysis Australian miscellaneous writings
Gardening
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-302) and index
Subject Australian literature -- Women authors.
Gardeners -- Australia.
Gardens -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Gardens -- Australia.
Women authors -- Australia -- Correspondence.
Women gardeners -- Australia -- Biography.
Women gardeners -- Australia -- Correspondence.
Women authors -- Australia.
Women -- Australia -- ?́ƠBiography
Women -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women -- Australia -- Biography.
Women -- Australia -- Gardeners -- Biography
Genre/Form Biographies.
Anecdotes.
Personal correspondence.
LC no. 2010670943
ISBN 9781742582535 (paperback)
Other Titles Between the leaves