The 'Victoria Library for Gentlewomen', a series of books 'Under
the Patronage of HM the Queen and HRH the Princess of Wales',
edited by W. H. Davenport Adams (1828-91), provided information and
advice on various topics for those who aspired to gentlewomanly
status. Davenport Adams himself was a journalist and author of
popular science and history works, but little is known of the two
authors of this 1892 work. Edith L. Chamberlain was a minor
novelist who had also published a book on the dialect of west
Worcestershire, and Fanny Douglas worked with Davenport Adams on
other titles in the series. This book follows the fashion of late
nineteenth-century works (often by women) which combine
descriptions of gardens and gardening with historical and literary
references. It is unusual in that its final chapter describes ways
for educated 'gentlewomen' to enter gardening as a profession - a
radical suggestion for the period.
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