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04373aam a22004573a 4500 001 8FDAB8C8246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150707010042 008 131103s2014 enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1909686468 020 $a 9781909686465 035 $a (OCoLC)862103101 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d UKMGB $d CDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d GZN $d CDS $d ZCU $d OCLCF $d MUU $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3545.H16 $b Z874 2014 082 4 $a 813.5 $b 23 100 1 $a Ruff, Allan R. 245 13 $a An author & a gardener : $b the gardens and friendship of Edith Wharton and Laurence Johnston / $c Allan R. Ruff. 246 3 $a Author and a gardener 246 3 $a Gardens and friendship of Edith Wharton and Laurence Johnston 260 $a Oxford ; $b Windgather Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xii, 380 pages : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 26 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The New York beginnings -- The arbiter of taste -- 'The Mount' and Italian gardens -- The making of a gardener -- The Cotswolds and the American diaspora -- Edith Wharton in England -- Making the garden at Hidcote -- The First World War -- Hidcote and friends -- Edith Wharton and her French gardens -- Johnston and the French Riviera -- Plants and plant collecting -- Lawrence Johnston: The Diary years 1929-1932 -- The final chapter -- Afterwards -- Conclusions and legacies. 520 $a In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton's intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence 'Johnnie' Johnston, the creator of two famous gardens, at Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire, in England and Serre de la Madone, Menton, on the Cote d''zur in the south of France. Wharton and Johnston shared not only a love of nature and gardens but also a shared experience of life. Both were private people who had had very similar childhoods, experiencing the loss of their fathers at an early age. Yet there was one aspect of their lives in which they were very different. Wharton, the writer, chose to expose her innermost thoughts and feelings and was continually in the public eye. Johnston, however, wrote nothing about his gardens, hardly permitted photographs of himself or his gardens and, though he kept an engagement diary, these, with two exceptions, have not survived. 520 $a As a result Johnston remains a shadowy figure upon whom light occasionally falls from within the diaries kept by Edith Wharton. Her diaries also provide an illuminating insight into both her gardens at St-Brice, and at Hyeres, in the south of France. Wharton was a passionate gardener - an aspect not yet fully explored in previous biographies - early in her life after she had made her first garden at The Mount, at Lenox, Massachusetts in the United States, she claimed she was a better landscape designer than novelist. As fellow gardeners, Edith and Johnnie spent many hours together visiting each other's gardens, staying as house guests, plant-collecting in the Haute Massif and travelling by car to nurseries and gardens throughout England and France. 520 $a In this major new critical biography Allan Ruff has brought the two together, calling upon his lifetime's knowledge of landscape and garden design to assess the influences and techniques employed in the gardens of these two remarkable people, all set against a long-vanished, high-society background.--Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Wharton, Edith, $d 1862-1937. 600 10 $a Wharton, Edith, $d 1862-1937 $x Homes and haunts. 600 10 $a Johnston, Lawrence Waterbury, $d 1871-1958. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 651 0 $a Hidcote Manor Garden (England) 650 0 $a Gardens $z Gloucestershire. $z Gloucestershire. 650 0 $a Gardeners $z England $v Biography. 600 17 $a Johnston, Lawrence Waterbury, $d 1871-1958. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01494777 600 17 $a Wharton, Edith, $d 1862-1937. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00048127 650 7 $a Friendship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935174 650 7 $a Landscape gardening. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00991916 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211005011554.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180102050525.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8FDAB8C8246D11E5A97E42B6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search