The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown Plantation /

Recovered in the mid-1990s from the attic of a Turnbull family descendant, Martha Turnbull's garden diary offers the most extensive surviving first-hand account of nineteenth-century plantation life and gardening in the Deep South. Landscape architecture professor and preservationist Suzanne Tu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Turnbull, Martha Barrow, 1809-1896
Otros Autores: Seale, William, Turner, Suzanne, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Turnbull, Martha Barrow, > 1809-1896.
Turnbull, Martha Barrow, > 1809-1896 > Diaries.
Rosedown Plantation.
Historic gardens.
Gardens.
Jardins historiques > Louisiane > Saint Francisville > Histoire.
Historic gardens > Louisiana > Saint Francisville > History.
Gardens > Louisiana > Saint Francisville > History.
Louisiana > Saint Francisville.
Journaux intimes.
Diaries.
History.
diaries.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Diary: Annotated with Excerpts and Illustrations from Period Texts
  • I.The Garden Is Begun, 1836-1851
  • II.The Mature Garden, 1852-1860
  • III.War and Recovery, and Life (and Gardening) Goes On, 1861-1871
  • IV.In the Cycles of the Garden Are Solace and Renewal, 1872-1895
  • Afterword
  • A Photo Album of Rosedown Today.

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