The story of One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place unfolds during the rise of American home gardening in the 1920s, when women viewed it as a means of self-improvement. The lecture by coauthor Jane Roy Brown sets the garden of writer Eudora Welty (1909-2001) in the context of garden-making in the early twentieth century, discussing the “new” suburban garden of the 1920s, Progressive-era woman’s clubs, and the rise of garden clubs. Pre-registration is required.  Sponsored by the Garden Club of Wilmington.

A Grand Teacher is the third of five lectures in the Help for the Home Gardener Series. Every Wednesday in February, find inspiration and expert advice to make your home environment more attractive and your gardening experience more enjoyable. Light refreshments will be served.

Jane Roy Brown

Author

Jane Roy Brownis a landscape historian, award-winning editor and travel and garden writer focusing on historic gardens and landscapes.  

American Gardener has called Brown’s recent work, One Writer’s Garden:, Eudora Welty’s Home Place, “a sparkling, multifaceted work rich in regional personalities, plants, and events that gardeners, with or without a telltale drawl, will relish. It is an important work of garden literature—not to mention a good read.”

With numerous articles published in the Boston Globe, Bostonia, The Christian Science Monitor, Garden Design, Grist, Harvard Magazine, Landscape Architecture, Maine Times, Preservation, Vermont Life, and other publications, Brown’s editing work includes the Journal of the New England Garden History Society and various editorial roles at AMC Outdoors, the magazine of the Appalachian Mountain Club, a regional nonprofit recreation and conservation organization with more than 90,000 members.

Brown graduated from Middlebury College with a bachelors degree in comparative religion and holds a landscape design certificate from Radcliffe Seminars (now the Landscape Institute at Arnold Arboretum). Today, she is the director of educational outreach at the Library of American Landscape History.

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