Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920

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180 Notes to pages 123–8



  1. Garden, 1872–1927 (incomplete), Rothschild Collection, Natural History Museum,
    London, 365 GAR Q; G. Jekyll, ‘A Self Sown Wood’, Garden, 79:2252 (1915), p. 34.

  2. G. Jekyll, ‘Colour in the Flower Border’, Garden, 83:2496 (20 September 1919), p. 450.

  3. Hastings and Tooley, ‘Bibliography’, pp. 185–90; Tooley, ‘Jekyll’s Garden Plans’, in
    Tooley and Arnander (eds), Gertrude Jekyll: Essays on the Life of a Working Amateur, pp.
    198–202. Most known designs are in Reef Point Gardens Collection, Environmental
    Design Archives at University of California, Berkeley, fi les 1–10, folders 1–227.

  4. A. Helmreich, Th e English Garden and National Identity (Cambridge: University of
    Cambridge Press, 2002), p. 172; Th is subject is explored more fully in D. Harris, ‘Culti-
    vating Power: Th e Language of Feminism in Women’s Garden Literature, 1870–1920’,
    Landscape Journal, 13:2 (Fall 1994), pp. 113–23.

  5. R. Bisgrove, William Robinson: Th e Wild Gardener (London: Frances Lincoln, 2008),
    p. 189.

  6. See ODNB.

  7. Festing, Gertrude Jekyll, p. 181.

  8. W. Robinson (ed.), Th e English Flower Garden: Style, Position, and Arrangements, 2nd
    edn (London: John Murray, 1889), p. 156.

  9. Ibid., p. 157.

  10. Bisgrove, William Robinson, p. 222.

  11. G. Jekyll, ‘Colour in the Flower Garden’, in Robinson (ed.), Th e English Flower Garden,
    pp. 156–61, on p. 157.

  12. Jekyll, Wood and Garden, p. 206.

  13. G. Jekyll, ‘Preface’, in F. King (ed.), Th e Well Considered Garden (New York: Charles
    Scribner’s Sons, 1915), pp. ix–x, on p. x.

  14. G. Jekyll, ‘Colour in Flowers’, Garden, 27:698 (1885), pp. 277–8.

  15. J. Ruskin, Th e Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and its Application to Decoration and
    Manufacture, Delivered in 1858–9 (New York: J. Wiley, 1859); Jekyll, ‘Colour in Flow-
    ers’, pp. 277–8.

  16. G. Jekyll, ‘Iris Tuberosa’, Garden, 27:695; 701 (1885), pp. 208, 378.

  17. Jekyll/Barnes–Brand Correspondence, 29 March 1932, Royal Horticultural Society,
    Lindley Library, letter 37.

  18. M. Tooley, ‘Th e Plant Nursery at Munstead Wood’, in Tooley and Arnander (eds), Ger-
    trude Jekyll: Essays on the Life of a Working Amateur, pp. 114–26, on p. 114.

  19. J. B. Tankard and M. A. Wood, Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood: Writing, Horticulture,
    Photography, Homebuilding (Godalming : Bramley Books, 1998), p. 123; Carter’s Tested
    Seed Limited, 1804–1968, University of Reading, Museum of English Rural Life, GB
    007 TR CAR.

  20. G. Jekyll, Garden, 37:964 (1890), p. 448.

  21. 21 April 1891. Tooley, ‘Calendar’, p. 216.

  22. A .T. Gates, Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World
    (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 188.

  23. G. Jekyll, ‘Sun and the Poppies’, Garden, 31:814 (1887), p. 581.

  24. Gates, Kindred Nature, p. 188.

  25. G. Jekyll, Old West Surrey: Some Notes and Memories (London: Longmans, Green &
    Co., 1904); M. Batey, ‘Th e Arts & Craft s Background’, in Museum of Garden History
    (ed.), Gertrude Jekyll, 1843–1932: A Celebration (London: Museum of Garden History,
    1993), pp. 13–15, on p. 14.

  26. Helmreich, Th e English Garden and National Identity, p. 159.

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