Jennifer Munroe
Ashgate
Hardback
146
2008
An investigation into early modern gardens gender and writing this study considers not only published literary representations of gardens but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. Jennifer Munroe here analyzes how writers appropriated the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status.
Ashgate
Hardback
146
2008
An investigation into early modern gardens gender and writing this study considers not only published literary representations of gardens but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. Jennifer Munroe here analyzes how writers appropriated the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status.