Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
34: 260-1
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's mother, Henrietta Mary Amy (Simpson) Strachey
, known as Amy, was born in 1866 and married John St Loe Strachey
in 1887. She contributed about twenty pieces to The Spectator between 1900 and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth von Arnim | Her first publication also initiated a taste for gardening books with a hands-on approach to natural landscaping: Gertrude Jekyll
published the first of her many gardening books, Wood and Garden, in 1899, and included... |
Occupation | Vita Sackville-West | |
Textual Features | Roma White | In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The... |