Abstract
Introduction Part I. Moral Order: The School of Nature: 1. 'In the home garden': moral tales for children 2. The 'botanic eye': botany, miniature, and magnification Part II. The Visual Frame: Constructing a View: 3. Picturing the 'home landscape': the nature of accomplishment 4. Commanding a view: the Taylor sisters and the construction of domestic space Part III. Personal Practice: Making Gardens Grow: 5. Dorothy Wordsworth: gardening, self-fashioning, and creation of home 6. 'Work in a small compass': gardening manuals for women Part IV. Narrative Strategies: Plotting the Garden: 7. 'Unbought pleasure': gardening in Coelebs in Search of a Wife and Mansfield Park 8. Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford and the meaning of Victorian gardens Epilogue.
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