EMILY HERRING WILSON - On BECOMING ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

04/23/2010 7:30 pm

Where do great gardeners come from?  Emily Herring Wilson, editor of BECOMING ELIZABETH LAWRENCE: DISCOVERED LETTERS OF A SOUTHERN GARDENER, can tell you.  She guides you through letters from Lawrence to her mentor, Ann Bridgers, who encouraged her to write of her love of gardening.  In 2004,  Horticulture Magazine named Lawrence one of the 25 greatest gardeners in the world.

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Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence: Discovered Letters of a Southern Gardener (Hardcover)

By Emily Herring Wilson
$19.95
ISBN-13: 9780895873750
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Published: John F. Blair Publisher, 4/2010
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In 1927, Anne Preston Bridgers was the pride of her hometown in Raleigh, NC. The play, Coquette, which she co-wrote with George Abbott, was the toast of Broadway with Helen Hayes as its star. It was during this time that Elizabeth Lawrence and her family lived across the street from Anne's mother on Hillsborough Street. Elizabeth was a recent graduate of Barnard College who would go on to become the first female graduate in the landscape design program at North Carolina State University. Elizabeth and Anne struck up a friendship. Through the correspondence between these two accomplished women, one glimpses what life in a Southern town was like for upper class women during the 1930s and 40s. The women discuss books, plays, travels, ideas, and of course, the garden.

Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White and Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters (Paperback)

By Emily Herring Wilson, Katherine S. White, Elizabeth Lawrence
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780807085592
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Published: Beacon Press, 4/2003
Now in paperback, the letters of renowned New Yorker editor Katharine White and Southern garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence bring to life the unique friendship between two intelligent women, both avid gardeners. Photos.

No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence (Paperback)

By Emily Herring Wilson
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ISBN-13: 9780807085639
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Published: Beacon Press, 9/2005
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"This is the biography of Elizabeth Lawrence that we have all been waiting for. Even though Lawrence's writings are legendary among Southern gardeners, her personal life has always been somewhat elusive. Wilson deftly weaves together Lawrence's passions--her gardens, family circle, cherished friendships, and even her religious beliefs--in a compelling narrative." --Judith B. Tankard, Landscape Institute, Harvard University
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