by Carlisle | Dec 1, 2012 | Carlisle Flowers
Edith Wharton was a writer in the late 1900s into the first third of the 20th Century. The biographer, R.W.B. Lewis writes in his book, Edith Wharton A Biography that Ms. Wharton scoured the Italian countryside to study and write about its beauty and to document its...
by Carlisle | Jun 4, 2010 | Carlisle Flowers
The number of publications aimed at the garden owner surged in the early 20th century. Many of the most popular garden writers were women, some of whom are still read today. Landscape historian Diane Newbury brought the world of gardening in the 1920s to the fore by...