Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden

This 1897 work discusses topics from healthy recipes to interior decoration, with plenty of advice on all aspects of gardening.

Maria Theresa Villiers Earle (Author)

9781108076678, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 December 2014

400 pages, 3 b/w illus.
22 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.53 kg

Mrs C. W. Earle (1836–1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she married Captain C. W. Earle, who inherited family property which enabled a comfortable lifestyle with a town house in London and a small property with a large garden in Surrey. Earle's designs for her garden were much admired by her artistic and literary circle, and she was encouraged to write down her gardening advice. With the help of her niece, Lady Constance Lytton (who provides an appendix on Japanese flower arranging), she published this book, the first of three, in 1897, and it was a great and immediate success. The reader is addressed directly and engagingly on topics ranging from gardening and cookery books to planting schemes, healthy recipes, interior decoration, and the rearing of boys and girls, together with plenty of practical advice on all aspects of gardening.

Preface
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Sons
Furnishing
A day in London
Health
Amateur artists
Daughters
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]