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Title: Two Gardeners: A Friendship in Letters by Katharine S. White, Lawrence Elizabeth, Emily Herring Wilson, Elizabeth Lawrence ISBN: 0-8070-8558-8 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Trip down memory lane...via the garden path
Comment: The TWO GARDENERS in question are Katherine White of New Yorker fame and Elizabeth Lawrence who wrote a garden column for years for the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. White's columns on gardening written for the New Yorker magazine were compiled by her husband E. B. White (CHARLOTTE'S WEB, STUART LITTLE) and published after her death in 1977 in the book entitled ONWARD AND UPWARD IN THE GARDEN. Lawrence wrote a number of books, including THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE and THE LITTLE BULBS. Her book THE MARKET BULLETINS was completed by the New Jersey gardener Alan Lacy. The market bulletins were wonderful publications farm women in the South used to communicate information about seeds, plants, animals, receipts (what they called recipes), and other items they for sale or being sought. Elizabeth shared a good deal of information about the market bulletins which were not published north of Virginia with Katherine whose one interests lay with garden catalogues when their friendship began.
Lawrence and White corresponded for several decades. The two women discussed their gardens, their columns, their books, and their lives. In the early part of their correspondence, they often wrote each other by return mail. Toward the end of Katherine's life, the letters were few and far between as illness began to affect her movement and ability to see. In spite of their suffering, they continued to observe the world around them and relay how things were going in the garden-the latest blooms, the ravenous mice, the unexpected cold snap, the new greenhouse. Their words remind me of the hope and comfort women have long experienced when a letter from a loved one arrives. As my 87-year old aunt with whom I still correspond says, it doesn't matter what you write, the smallest thing matters.
The editor of this collection of letters Emily Wilson, quotes a librarian who remarked after having read the letters Elizabeth and Katherine wrote to each other, "I got a feeling of moral interdependence on a creative level. Somehow I had viewed the creativity of successful people as a strong force that perhaps needed channeling but not encouragement. Now, on this new-to-me-plane, I see again that no man is an island."
Rating: 5
Summary: Letters, we've got letters
Comment: As the editor of TWO GARDENERS/KATHARINE S. WHITE AND ELIZABETH LAWRENCE, I welcome hearing from readers. I am now writing the biography of Elizabeth Lawrence and would benefit from hearing others' understanding of her, both in these letters and in her books. Emily Herring Wilson
Rating: 5
Summary: The inspiration for a modern perennial garden!
Comment: Delightful! The correspondence of 19 years between White and Lawrence is insightful, informative and elegant! Their letterse (far more elegant than e-mail) give us glimpses into life in the 60's and 70's and beyond. This book, which is expertly edited by Emily Herring Wilson has inspired a perennial garden at our Wisconsin home and a renewed interest in the writings of E.B. White, not to mention the writings of Katharine White and Elizabeth Lawrence. These two career women and ladie were supportive and encouraging of one another for 19 years!
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Title: Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine Sergeant Angell White, E. B. White ISBN: 0807085618 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins by Elizabeth Lawrence ISBN: 0822308878 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Gardener's Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things by Richardson Wright ISBN: 0812968735 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Southern Garden by Elizabeth Lawrence ISBN: 0807849308 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Through the Garden Gate by Elizabeth Lawrence, Bill Neal ISBN: 0807845191 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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