Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-307) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- PART I. MORAL ORDER: THE SCHOOL OF NATURE: 1. 'In the home garden': moral tales for children; 2. The 'botanic eye': botany, miniature, and magnification -- PART II. THE VISUAL FRAME: CONSTRUCTING A VIEW: 3. Picturing the 'home landscape': the nature of accomplishment; 4. Commanding a view: the Taylor sisters and the construction of domestic space -- PART III. PERSONAL PRACTICE: MAKING GARDENS GROW: 4. Dorothy Wordsworth: gardening, self-fashioning, and the creation of home; 6. 'Work in a small compass': gardening manuals for women -- PART IV. NARRATIVE STRATEGIES: PLOTTING THE GARDEN; 7. 'Unbought pleasure': gardening in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife and Mansfield Park; 8. Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford and the meaning of Victorian gardens -- Epilogue.
Subject Terms:
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. | Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism. | Gardens in literature. | Gardening in literature. | Home in literature. | Privacy in literature. | Gardens -- Symbolic aspects -- England -- History. | Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.