Publisher's Synopsis
The stories of 100 brave, creative, pioneering women who shaped North America's gardening heritage and horticultural landscape. These women employed courage and determination through tales of invention, creativity, dogged research, innovation, perspiration, and inspiration that helped shape North America. The range of their accomplishments is vast, the variety of their talents is amazing, and the legacy they have left is enduring. In addition to being of interest to gardeners, this book is an insight into the history of the emerging, developing nations of the USA and Canada, and also a celebration of how women met and overcame obstacles to achieve equality with men. We all owe them a great deal, but many of the featured women are little known and hardly recognized, which makes this book an overdue opportunity to acknowledge their work and celebrate their achievements. Martha Daniell Logan (1704-1779) Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) Jane Colden (1724-1766) Elizabeth Lamboll (1725-1760) Margaret Tilghman Carroll (1742-1817) Lady Jean Skipwith (1748-1826) Frances "Fanny" Penniman (1760-1834) Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (1793-1884) Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899) Mary Riggs Collins (1808-1872) Jane Loring Gray (1821-1909) Susan Hallowell (1835-1911) Annie Linda Jack (1839-1912) Buffalo Bird Woman (circa 1839-1932) Emma Homan Thayer (1842-1908) Theodosia Burr Shepherd (1845-1906) Frances "Fannie" Griscom Parsons (1850-1923) Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) Clara Eaton Cummings (1855-1906) Katherine Olivia "Kate" Sessions (1857-1940) Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858-1934) Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1858-1920) Mabel Osgood Wright (1859-1934) Alice Eastwood (1859-1953) Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) Frances Theodora Parsons (1861-1952) Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Louisa Boyd Yeomans King (1863-1948) Harriett Risley Foote (1863-1951) Hulda Klager (1863-1960) Margaret Clay Ferguson (1863-1951) Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) Clara Bryant Ford (1866-1950) Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944) Jennie Foster Butchart (1868-1950) Mattie Edwards Hewitt (1859 -1956) Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869-1950) Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) Josephine Tilden (1869-1957) Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1871-1959) Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (1872-1959) Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960) Grace Tabor (1873-1973) Nellie Beatrice Osborn Allen (1874-1961) Marian Cruger Coffin (1876-1957) Louise Beebe Wilder (1878-1938) Lester Nellie Gertrude Ellen Rowntree (1879-1979) Isabella Preston (1881-1965) Marian "Daisy" Hubbard Fairchild (1880-1962) Anne Bethel Spencer, (1882 - 1975) Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974) Mary Gibson Henry (1884 -1967) Florence Bell Robinson (1885-1973) Marie Selby (1885-1971) Lilla Leach (1886-1980) Elsa Rehmann (1886-1946) Ganna Walska (1887-1984) Rose Ishbel Greely (1887-1969) Elizabeth Lord (1887-1976) and Edith Schryver (1901-1984) Annette Hoyt Flanders (1887-1946) Caroline "Carrie" Coroneos Dormon (1888-1971) Ruth Bramley Dean (1889-1932) Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889-1983) Emma Lucy Braun (1889-1971) Alice Orme Smith (1889-1980) Florence Yoch (1890-1972) and Lucile Council (1898-1964) Louise Klein Miller (1890-1967) Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891-1954) May Petrea Theilgaard Watts (1893-1975) Edith A Roberts (1894-1977) Wanda Kirkbride Farr (1895-1983) Helen Elise Bullard (1896-1987) Genevieve Gillette (1898-1986) Katherine Esau (1898-1997) Cynthia Westcott (1898-1983) Ethel Granger McDowell Earley Clark, (1899-1976) Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon, (1899 - 2005) Isadore Smith (Ann Leighton) (1902-1985) Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) Elizabeth Lawrence (1904-1985) Geraldine Knight Scott (1904-1989) Mildred Esther Mathias (1906-1995) Elsa Uppman Knoll (1906-2000) Pamela Cunningham Copeland (1906-2001) Florence Bellis (1906-1987) Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden (1907-2007) Rachel Carson (1907-1964) Ruth Petersson Bancroft (1908-2017) Nelva Weber (1908-1990) Julia Jane Silverstein Ries (1909-2005) Thalassa Cruso (1909-1997) Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon (1910-2014) Alice Recknagel Ireys (1911-2000) Marie Clark Taylor, (1911 -1990) Lady Bird Johnson, (1912 - 2007) Madalene Hill (1913-2009) Elisabeth Carey Miller (1915-1994) Janet Meakin Poor (1929-2017) Elizabeth Liz Christy (1945-1985).
