No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence PDF
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(cid:1) No One Gardens Alone No One Gardens Alone A LIFE OF ELIZABETH LAWRENCE EMILY HERRING WILSON BEACON PRESS BOSTON BEACON PRESS 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. © 2004 by Emily Herring Wilson Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the uncoated paper / specifications for permanence as revised in . Text design by Christopher Kuntze Composition by Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services -- Wilson, Emily Herring. No one gardens alone : a life of Elizabeth Lawrence / by Emily Herring Wilson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. -- - (pbk. : alk. paper) ‒ . Lawrence, Elizabeth, . . Gardeners—North Carolina—Charlotte—Biography. . Women gardeners—North Carolina—Charlotte—Biography. I. Title. . . ' — Lawrence photographs, Lawrence Family Papers (privately held), and the Lawrence and Way Collections at NSUL are used with permission of Warren Way and Elizabeth Way Rogers. Eudora Welty photograph and letters are used with per- mission of Mary Alice Welty White and Elizabeth Welty Thompson. Eudora Welty letter to Emmy and Bill Maxwell used with permission of Mary Alice Welty White and Elizabeth Welty Thompson. Ruth Dormon and Caroline Dormon letters used with permission of the Cammie Henry Library, Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Excerpts from “The Little Bulbs,” by Elizabeth Lawrence, used with permission of Duke University Press. Ann Preston Bridgers Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, North Carolina. Ann Preston Bridgers photo- graph used with permission of C.B. Squire. Photograph from The News & Observerof Raleigh, North Carolina, courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives. The illustration by Kirk McCauley is from Carolina Gardener,Sept./Oct. 1992. For Jane Hatcher “I want you to know how much I have loved life and how necessary it was just the way I played it.” ( ) “She was insidethe wonderful garden and she could come through the door under the ivy any time and she felt as if she had found a world all her own.” , The Secret Garden (cid:1) Contents Prologue ·Family History ·Childhood – ·Raleigh – ·Barnard College – ·Peter and Elizabeth ·A Time for Reflection – ·Return to Raleigh ·Remembering ·Writing Poetry ·Garden Design ·A Writer’s Life – ·Writing A Southern Garden ·The Church ·Ann Lawrence ·The Move to Charlotte ·The Little Bulbs ·Writing a Garden Column ·Gardens in Winter ·Elizabeth and Her Friends ·A Friendship in Letters – - ·The Weltys of Jackson, Mississippi - ·Gardening for Loveand A Rock Garden in the South - ·Closing the Garden Gate Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index
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