RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cultivating Power: The Language of Feminism in Women's Garden Literature, 1870-1920
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 113
OP 123
DO 10.3368/lj.13.2.113
VO 13
IS 2
A1 Dianne Harris
YR 1994
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/13/2/113.abstract
AB Much has been written about 19th-century American and British handbooks and manuals dealing with interior and domestic life, however comparatively little has been written about the gardening books by women that dealt with the world just outside the back door. This analysis, based on a sampling of this body of literature from 1870 to 1920, shows that as a literary genre, the books provided a forum and a safe outlet for the cultivation of what feminist historians have called a “woman's culture,” a culture that nurtured independence and power in an otherwise disenfranchised segment of the population.