| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: gardener, friend, and artist -- Editorial note -- May 1940- December 1941 -- January 1942-August 1943 -- September 1943-October 1944 -- October 1944-December 1945 -- January 1946-October 1949 |
| Summary |
This book presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty. Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, and The Golden Apples. During this period, she also wrote hundreds of letters to two friends who shared her love of gardening. One friend, Diarmuid Russell, was her literary agent in New York; the other, John Robinson, was a high school classmate and an aspiring writer who served in the Army in WWII, and long the focus of Welty's affection. Welty's lyrical, witty, and poignant discussions of gardening and nature are delightful in themselves; they are also figurative expressions of Welty's views of her writing and her friendships. Taken together with thirty-five illustrations, they form a poetic narrative of their own, chronicling artistic and psychic developments that were underway before Welty was fully conscious of them |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2014 |
| Subject |
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Knowledge -- Gardening
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Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Correspondence
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Russell, Diarmuid, -1973 -- Correspondence
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Robinson, John, 1909-1989 -- Correspondence
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| SUBJECT |
Robinson, John, 1909-1989 fast |
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Russell, Diarmuid, -1973 fast |
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Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 fast |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters.
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Authors, American
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Gardening
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| Genre/Form |
Personal correspondence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Eichelberger, Julia, 1959- editor.
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| LC no. |
2013001016 |
| ISBN |
9781617031885 |
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1617031887 |
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9781621039587 |
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1621039587 |
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