Keywords:
Garden History, English-style garden, Landscape Studies, Women Gardeners
Synopsis
From the seventeenth century onwards, women gardeners have planted, pruned, selected, illustrated, contributed to the publication of texts about gardens, and have also been active within the area of scientific and botanical research, in landscape design, and in the environmental campaigns that started in Victorian England.
From England then, where garden history is well studied and documented, women did extend their action to the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, bridging the borderlines of our old world while preserving their roots, which would be replanted in distant lands. Francesca Orestano, Anna Rudelli and Anna Zappatini have explored the adventurous stories of these women gardeners: we still profit from their lessons, even if our gardening skills are limited to a geranium pot on our window sill.
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Author Biographies
Francesca Orestano
held the chair of English Literature at Milan State University. She authored books on John Neal, on William Gilpin and the Picturesque, on XIX c. literature and visual culture. Editor of books on Charles Dickens, history and narration, children’s literature, fiction and food, travel literature, she has written many essays on gardens, on English authors from Alexander Pope to David Bowie, John Ruskin, Virginia Woolf, chemistry and fin-de-siècle taste, Dada in England. Forthcoming the collection of essays Some Keywords in Dickens; the volume Il Pittoresco, 1700-1900, and several essays on the Chinese community in XIX c. London.
Anna Rudelli
earned her MA degree from Milan State University with a dissertation on the Scottish naturalist John Muir. She works for Myplant & Garden, the International trade fair for horticulture, landscape and garden in Italy. Her essays on John Muir, Dorothy Wordworth, Gertrude Jekyll have appeared in international publications; today she works with hoe and boots in her small vegetable garden, at 4265 ft. on the Dolomites.
Anna Zappatini
earned her MA degree from Milan State University, with a dissertation on «Women and Kew Gardens: from Queen Caroline to Virginia Woolf». Today she works as independent scholar carrying out research projects on garden history; her research interests focus on the flora, botanical culture, and the gardens of the countries visited by Marianne North, a Victorian traveller and artist.
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