Two gardeners : Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence : a friendship in letters

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Label

Two gardeners : Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence : a friendship in letters

Title remainder

Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence : a friendship in letters

Statement of responsibility

edited by Emily Herring Wilson

Creator

• White, Katharine Sergeant Angell

Contributor

• Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985
• Wilson, Emily Herring

Subject

• North Carolina -- Charlotte
• Gardening -- North Carolina | Charlotte
• Women gardeners
• Maine -- North Brooklin
• White, Katharine Sergeant Angell
• Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985
• Lawrence, Elizabeth, 1904-1985 -- Correspondence
• Women gardeners -- Maine | North Brooklin -- Correspondence
• Gardening
• Women gardeners -- North Carolina | Charlotte -- Correspondence
• White, Katharine Sergeant Angell -- Correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• Gardening -- Maine | North Brooklin

Genre

• Correspondence
• Records and correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

"A legendary editor at The New Yorker during its first thirty-four years, Katharine S. White was also a great garden enthusiast. In March 1958 she began publishing her popular column, "Onward and Upward in the Garden." Her first column elicited loads of fan mail, but one letter in particular caught her attention. From Elizabeth Lawrence, a noted southern garden writer, it was filled with suggestions and encouragement. When Katharine wrote back her appreciation, she reported on her Maine garden and discussed the plants and books that interested her. Thus began a correspondence that would last for almost twenty years, until Katharine's death in 1977." "Two Gardeners is a collection of these luminous letters, edited and introduced by Emily Herring Wilson. The letters bring to life the unique epistolary friendship between two intelligent women, the "formidable" Mrs. White and the "shy" Miss Lawrence, both avid gardeners and readers, both at a stage of life when to make a new friend was rare indeed: when they first wrote to one another, Katharine was sixty-two, Elizabeth, fifty-four."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 635.9/092/273
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

SB455

LC item number

.W52 2002

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

SB455

NAL item number

.W52 2002

Nature of contents

dictionaries