Elizabeth And Her German Garden (Virago Modern Classics)

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Elizabeth And Her German Garden (Virago Modern Classics)

Elizabeth And Her German Garden (Virago Modern Classics)

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Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and burying, and I don't know what besides, and would rend the air with shrieks if condemned to such a life. Minora (one of her visitors) was angry at this, and at last pulled off her glove, but quickly put it on again.

Visitors--some pleasant, some vastly irritating--come and go, or sometimes come and stay, even when Elizabeth would rather they just left. It is not graceful, and it makes one hot; but it is a blessed sort of work, and if Eve had had a spade in Paradise and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that sad business of the apple. When the narrator is not telling us about the kinds of roses in her flower-beds (Marie van Houette, Viscountess Folkestone, Laurette Messimy, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Adam and Devoniensis, Persian Yellow, Bicolor, Duke of Teck, Cheshunt Scarlet, Prefet de Limburg…it goes on for pages), she is offering up such pearls of wisdom as ‘why cook when you can get some one to cook for you? We have the 'babies' the April, baby, the May baby, the June baby and the 'Man of Wrath', who seems just to be a pompous reactionary bore. She plays with her beloved daughters, even as she grieves the house and garden in which she grew up and which she lost to her cousins for the "crime" of having been born a girl.I don’t love things that will only bear the garden for three or four months in the year and require coaxing and petting for the rest of it. studiare le piante, andare per tentativi ed aspettare il momento della fioritura assieme alla speranza che germogli anche la possibilità per le donne di essere rispettate come esseri unici. One part garden memoir, two parts memoir about a bad marriage and a desire to escape most people and society, in general.

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Give me a garden full of strong, healthy creatures, able to stand roughness and cold without dismally giving in and dying. Un diario che va da maggio ad aprile, e racconta il trasferimento in una residenza di campagna in Pomerania.

As a gardener, I enjoy pouring over gorgeous garden catalogs trying to figure out what to plant this season or next. In the beginning I found her eccentric, but charming, but the more I read, the stronger was the feeling that her tone switched from funny to flippant and patronising either somewhere along the line or it had always been so. The Virago Modern Edition is, I think, the only one in print that is by an actual publishing company, and their Kindle is actually cheaper than some of the bad copies.



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