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Tell about Night Flowers - Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Tell about Night Flowers - Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Tell about Night Flowers presents previously unpublished letters by
Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger.
Welty published many of her best-known works in the 1940s: A
Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta
Wedding, and The Golden Apples. During this period, she also wrote
hundreds of letters to two friends who shared her love of
gardening. One friend, Diarmuid Russell, was her literary agent in
New York; the other, John Robinson, was a high school classmate and
an aspiring writer who served in the Army in WWII, and he was long
the focus of Welty's affection. Welty's lyrical, witty, and
poignant discussions of gardening and nature are delightful in
themselves; they are also figurative expressions of Welty's views
of her writing and her friendships. Taken together with thirty-five
illustrations, they form a poetic narrative of their own,
chronicling artistic and psychic developments that were underway
before Welty was fully conscious of them. By 1949 her art, like her
friendships, had evolved in ways that she would never have
predicted in 1940. Tell about Night Flowers not only lets readers
glimpse Welty in her garden; it also reveals a brilliant and
generous mind responding to the public events, people, art, and
natural landscapes Welty encountered at home and on her travels
during the 1940s. This book enhances our understanding of the life,
landscape, and art of a major American writer.
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