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Author:
Darby, Margaret Flanders, author.
Title:
The hothouse flower : nurturing women in the Victorian conservatory / Margaret Flanders Darby.
Publisher:
Edward Everett Root,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
ix, 210 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 24 cm
Subject:
1800-1899
Sex role in literature.
Greenhouses in literature.
Women--Social life and customs--19th century.
Conservatories in literature
Greenhouses in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women--Social life and customs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-199) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Glass consciousness -- Nurture under glass -- Imperfect perfections -- The lady and the gardener -- Marital strategies of the London season -- Death of a hothouse flower.
Summary:
Traces the interrelations of architecture, literature, social history, and gender in Anglo-American society of the late 19th and early 20th centuries by examining the conservatory (a glassed, heated building for the display of plants (and people)). The central metaphor of the Victorian lady as an exotic plant in need of protection and nurture, and for display is pursued throughout the book.
ISBN:
9781913087272
1913087271
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1184238872
LCCN:
2020445917
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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