Main entry:

Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscape Conference (11th : 1995 : Winston-Salem, N.C.)

Title & Author:

The Influence of women on the southern landscape : proceedings of the tenth Conference on Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscape, October 5-7, 1995, Old Salem, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Publication:

Winston-Salem, N.C. : Old Salem, ©1997.

Description:

xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Flora Ann L. Bynum, conference chairman -- Women and gardening: a challenge in writing history / Valencia Libby -- "Their women and children do continually keepe it with weeding:" late prehistoric women and horticulture in eastern North America / Gail E. Wagner -- "A vertue of necessity:" the backcountry housewife's reliance on garden, field, and forest / Kay Moss -- [Panel] The plantation mistress / Kenneth M. McFarland, moderator: Lady Jean Skipwith / Laura Viancour ; Catherine Edmondston / Jo Ann Williford ; Martha Turnbull / Greg Grant ; Ann Pamela Cunningham / Christy Snipes -- Woman garden writers: "gardening, reading about gardening, and writing about gardening are all one" / Susan E. Schnare -- The art of gardens: visions of the garden by women painters, photographers, and garden writers in the south, 1865-1915 / May Brawley Hill.
Late 19th century plants for flower gardening: a genteel occupation for "the lady of the house" / Peggy Cornett Newcomb -- "Where wonder expresses itself": flowers in eudora Welty's garden and prose / Susan Haltom -- Women landscpae architects and their influence on southern gardening / Sherold D. Hollingsworth -- The sisterhood of gardens: African-American women's gardens, from the backwoods to the cul-de-sac / Sue Anne Ware -- "To gather up the fragments that remain:" southern garden clubs and the publication of southern garden history, 1923-1939 / Davyd Foard Hood -- [Panel discussion] Southern women, southern landscapes / Valencia Libby, moderator ; recorded by Betsy Farrell -- The new southern landscape: gardens, science, art, and the environment / Camilla Wilcox.

ISBN:

187970403X
9781879704039

Subject:

Gardening Southern States History Congresses.
Women gardeners Southern States History Congresses.
Gardens Southern States History Congresses.
Jardinières États-Unis (Sud) Histoire Congrès.
Gardening.
Gardens.
Women gardeners.
Southern States.

Form/genre:

Congresses.
Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Old Salem, Inc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193327
Call No.: SB451.35.S68 R4 1995
Status: Available