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Author:   Michael Gilson
Publisher:   Reaktion Books
Imprint:   Reaktion Books
ISBN:  

9781789148602

ISBN 10:   178914860
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: On the train to Roehampton with Edith Sitwell and DH Lawrence Chapter One: ‘A little Garden City’ Chapter Two: ‘An industrial slave? Never’ Chapter Three: Trouble at the Whit Monday Garden Show Chapter Four: The Birth of beautification Chapter Five: Sudell the flower evangelist Chapter Six: ‘Taste is utterly debased’ Chapter Seven: ‘There were little bridges, gnomes and things’ Chapter Eight: An unrivalled influence on new nation of gardeners Chapter Nine: ‘A new Britain must arise on better lines than the old’ Chapter Ten: The landscape architect struggles to make a mark Chapter Eleven: ‘An important and influential figure’ Chapter Twelve: The importance of play Chapter Thirteen: Sudell urges us to invite Betty Uprichard into our garden Chapter Fourteen: ‘Sudell has been proved right’ References Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

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"""Gilson's book is a charming and unexpected glimpse into how gardening took root as an obsession for millions, full of suburban heroes and villains, revolutions and conformity.""--John Grindrod, author of 'Iconicon: A Journey around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain'"

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Michael Gilson is an award-winning editor and journalist as well as an associate fellow in the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex.

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