Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens 9780773588707

A path-breaking study of the domestic garden in Canadian literature.

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Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens 9780773588707

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Garden Plots
Chapter One: "[T]ransplanted into our gardens": Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, and the Backwoods Kitchen Garden
Chapter Two: When Authors are Gardeners: Susanna Moodie's and Catharine Parr Traill's Figurative "Plots"
Chapter Three: "Then a living house": Gabrielle Roy's Domestication of the Bower
Chapter Four: "A Saucer of Green": Carol Shields and Domestic Paradise
Chapter Five: Turning the Earth: Lorna Crozier the Gardener-Poet
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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