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Mrs C. W. Earle (1836-1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as
Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she married
Captain C. W. Earle, who inherited family wealth which enabled a
comfortable lifestyle with a town house in London and a small
property with a large garden in Surrey. Earle's designs for her
garden were much admired by her circle, and she was encouraged to
write down her gardening advice. She published three volumes of
Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden (also reissued in this series)
between 1897 and 1903, but these works were not restricted to
gardening, and contained thoughts on travel and art, and also on
the importance of diet to health. Published in 1911, these
reminiscences are dedicated to her grandchildren, and contain her
parents' history as well as her own memories of a privileged
upbringing among the literary and artistic giants of mid-Victorian
England.
Mrs C. W. Earle (1836-1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as
Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she married
Captain C. W. Earle, who inherited family property which enabled a
comfortable lifestyle with a town house in London and a small
property with a large garden in Surrey. Earle's designs for her
garden were much admired by her artistic and literary circle, and
she was encouraged to write down her gardening advice. This work,
published in 1899, followed on from the success of her Pot-Pourri
from a Surrey Garden (1897). It contains a similar collection of
writings on gardening, cookery, travel and art, in chapters which
follow the horticultural year from September to August. An
introductory section describes with verve and good humour the
critical reception of Earle's earlier book, and her reasons for
writing another.
Mrs C. W. Earle (1836-1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as
Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she married
Captain C. W. Earle, who inherited family property which enabled a
comfortable lifestyle with a town house in London and a small
property with a large garden in Surrey. Earle's designs for her
garden were much admired by her artistic and literary circle, and
she was encouraged to write down her gardening advice. With the
help of her niece, Lady Constance Lytton (who provides an appendix
on Japanese flower arranging), she published this book, the first
of three, in 1897, and it was a great and immediate success. The
reader is addressed directly and engagingly on topics ranging from
gardening and cookery books to planting schemes, healthy recipes,
interior decoration, and the rearing of boys and girls, together
with plenty of practical advice on all aspects of gardening.
Mrs C. W. Earle (1836-1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as
Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she married
Captain C. W. Earle, who inherited family property which enabled a
comfortable lifestyle with a town house in London and a small
property with a large garden in Surrey. Earle's designs for her
garden were much admired by her artistic and literary circle, and
she was encouraged to write down her gardening advice. In 1903 she
published this work, the third in a very successful series of
writings about gardening, cookery, travel and art, but the emphasis
in this book is very much on the importance of diet to health,
though there are plenty of other topics. The final section of the
book contains the last letters home of Mrs Earle's son Sydney, a
captain in the Coldstream Guards, who was killed late in 1899
during the Boer War.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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