Gertrude Jekyll

Standard Name: Jekyll, Gertrude

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Amabel Williams-Ellis	AWE 's mother, Henrietta Mary Amy (Simpson) Strachey , known as Amy, was born in 1866 and married John St Loe Strachey in 1887. She contributed about twenty pieces to The Spectator between 1900 and...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth von Arnim	Her first publication also initiated a taste for gardening books with a hands-on approach to natural landscaping: Gertrude Jekyll published the first of her many gardening books, Wood and Garden, in 1899, and included...
Occupation	Vita Sackville-West	VSW was a lecturer and broadcaster for the BBC as well as a hard-working and prolific journalist. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985. 34: 260-1 She has a place in any list of influential English gardeners, developing further some of the...
Textual Features	Roma White	In fact the book deals with gardening in town as well as in the suburbs. The cloth cover is attractively designed with a vignette of London above the title and a country scene below. The...

Timeline

1883

William Robinson lastingly affected the English style of gardening when he published The English Flower Garden, which went through many editions.

Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.

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1900

Gertrude Jekyll published her influential, highly personal Home and Garden, which describes the creation of her famous cottage garden at Munstead Wood in Surrey.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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