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 …

Combining an analysis of literature and art, this book contends that the'domesticated
landscape'is key to understanding women's complex negotiation of private and public life in …

Studies in the history of gardening, whether general surveys or monographs on eighteenth-
century gardens, are concerned with, one might say obsessed with, that magnificent …

Abstract'A+ new and possibly important feminist viewpoint, and although rural networks of
support among women may not be easily reestablished, women might do well to look to …

Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century
England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new …

Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century
women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world …

IN THE last three decades of the eighteenth century, the merging of two concurrent
phenomena—the solidification of picturesque values and the proliferation of women artists …

Building upon work by feminist art historians, this paper offers a critique of a classic text of
modernist landscape architecture history, Norman T. Newton's Design on the Land …

Among the many American designers working in the first half of this century were a number
of remarkable women who helped create the emerging profession of landscape architecture …

The role of women in the art and profession of landscape architecture has been neglected in
its major literature. While scholars have examined the work ofindividual women landscape …