Onward And Upward In The Garden (Paperback, Main)

In 1925, Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine's first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, she set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled "Onward and Upward in the Garden," a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of "seedmen and nurserymen," those unsung authors who produced her "favorite reading matter." Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.

General

Imprint:	Nyrb Classics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	March 2015
Authors:	E. B. White • Katharine White
Dimensions:	202 x 130 x 132mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	392
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-850-8
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism Books > Gardening > General
LSN:	1-59017-850-5
Barcode:	9781590178508

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