Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author McDowell, Marta, author.

Title Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet / Marta McDowell.

Publication Info. Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2019.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  811.4 DICKINSON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  811.4 MCD    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B DICKINSON    Check Shelf
Edition Revised edition.
Description 267 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Note Originally published by McGraw-Hill in 2005 as Emily Dickinson's Gardens : A Celebration of a Poet and Gardener.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index.
Contents Preface to the revised edition -- Introduction -- The turning of the year -- Early spring : A gardener's home and family -- Late spring : The education of a gardener -- Early summer : A gardener's travels -- Midsummer : A gardener's ground -- Late summer : A hedge away -- Autumn : A gardener's town -- Winter : Requiem for a gardener -- A poet's gardens -- Planting a poet's garden -- visiting a poet's garden -- An annotated list of Emily Dickinson's plants -- Afterword -- Sources and citations -- A note on the botanical artists -- Acknowledgements -- Photo and illustration credits -- Index.
Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Knowledge -- Gardening.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Knowledge -- Botany.
Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst.
Gardening -- Massachusetts -- Amherst -- History.
Botany in literature.
Flowers in literature.
Gardens in literature.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. (OCoLC)fst00035276
Botany. (OCoLC)fst00836869
Botany in literature. (OCoLC)fst00836949
Flowers in literature. (OCoLC)fst00927913
Gardening. (OCoLC)fst00937852
Gardens in literature. (OCoLC)fst00937933
Poets, American -- Homes and haunts. (OCoLC)fst01067804
Massachusetts -- Amherst. (OCoLC)fst01205179
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9781604698220
1604698225
-->
Add a Review