Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing

Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing

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I read for news, for driblets of knowledge. for aesthetic pleasure, and at the same time I am planning the future, and so I read in dream. Katharine Sergeant Angell White on reading garden catalogs

{HISTORY}

No stranger to the literary world, Katharine Sergeant Angell White (1892-1977) was a long-time editor of The New Yorker magazine. In addition to being on staff from the very beginning months of its infancy, she was also credited with crafting the magazine's exemplary literary direction throughout the 20th century. There, she worked with all the interesting writers of her generation including her second husband, E B. White.

A garden lover throughout her life, when E.B. ( who was known as Andy amongst friends) and Katharine left their New York City apartment and took up permanent residence at their vacation home in Maine in the 1950s, Katharine's love of all things gardening bloomed in full color both on the page and in the ground. Putting pen to paper, she captured the excitement of planning, plotting and cultivating her garden in a series of articles and essays that surprised even her husband with her candor and affection.

This book, Onward and Upward in the Garden compiles a selection of Katharine's writing published between March 1958 and March 1970 and covers a range of topics from garden catalogs to the shape of a flower petal, the interesting history of a plant, to the importance of dream gardening indoors throughout the winter season as a salve for the spirit.

In her fresh, sometimes funny, always original, and definitely opinionated voice, Katharine adds a unique perspective to the world of nature writing - tackling subjects not often discussed - like the crop of writers (talented or not) behind each year's newly published garden catalogs.

Katharine's style of writing and its subject matter surprised everyone in her later years, including her own husband, who wrote a wonderfully tender introduction about his wife's work in this book. 

A lovely addition to any vintage nature writers collection or garden enthusiast's library, Katharine's excitement for the natural world will inspire you during the growing season and console you during the hibernation months. 

{SPECIAL FEATURES}

- 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing published by Farrar, Strauss Giroux

- Introduction by E.B. White

- 362 pages

{CONDITION}

In lovely vintage condition. The dust jacket is completely intact. The pages are bright and clean. Minimal foxing on the top and side foredge. The spine is tight and all pages are intact.

{SIZE}

Measures 5.75" inches (width) x 8.75" inches (length) x 1.25" inches (thickness) and weighs 1.6lbs

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Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing
Onward And Upward In The Garden - Katharine Sergeant Angell White - 1979 Edition, Fifth Printing