The Gardens of William and Mary

The Gardens of William and Mary
Author: David Jacques
Publisher: Christopher Helm Publishing Company
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1988
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

The publication of this book marks the tercentenary of the revolution which swept King James VII and II off the thrones of Scotland and England and saw his sister Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange appointed co-monarchs in his stead.

Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science

Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science
Author: Ann B. Shteir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Botany
ISBN: 9780801861758

An exploration of the contributions of women to the field of botany before and after the dawn of the Victorian Age. It shows how ideas about botany as a leisure activity for self-improvement and a "feminine" pursuit gave women opportunities to publish their findings in periodicals.

A Writer's Day-book

A Writer's Day-book
Author: Ronald Blythe
Publisher: Nottingham Trent University
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This lively selection from the "day-book" of an author's reading and writing life focuses on a wide range of writers who have inspired him-- from Thomas Traherne to Virginia Woolf, Laurie Lee to Russell Hoban. Other key subjects include writers and artists of the First World War and the representation of the rural world.

Tennyson and the Fabrication of Englishness

Tennyson and the Fabrication of Englishness
Author: M. Sherwood
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137288906

Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, this book demonstrates that many of his representations were 'fabrications', more idealized than real, which played a vital part in the country's developing identity and sense of its place in the world.