If you’re interested in reading about female gardeners and their writing, Carol J Michel is researching and posting about what she calls “lost ladies of garden writing”. She says:
“The ‘lost ladies’ are women who wrote gardening books in the 19th and 20th centuries and are now mostly forgotten by the vast majority of gardeners today.
That’s why I call them lost ladies. They are lost to time. Few gardeners today know about them, but I know they existed because I have their books. Lots of them. And every time I hold one of their books, I can’t help but ask a few questions.
Who were these women? What were their lives like? What did they write about gardening that is useful for us today? (Quite a lot!)”
Image from Carol’s Substack page.
It’s a treat to read Carol’s articles. She says she is mostly focusing on American authors because of the resource limitations she has for her research. Check out her articles here.