Bibliograph

A third pot-pourri, Mrs C.W. Earle

Type

Label

A third pot-pourri, Mrs C.W. Earle

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A third pot-pourri

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1097117506

Responsibility statement

Mrs C.W. Earle

Series statement

Cambridge library collection. Botany and horticultureCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Summary

Mrs C. W. Earle (1836–1925) was born into the minor aristocracy as Maria Theresa Villiers. After training as an artist, she married Captain C. W. Earle, who inherited family property which enabled a comfortable lifestyle with a town house in London and a small property with a large garden in Surrey. Earle's designs for her garden were much admired by her artistic and literary circle, and she was encouraged to write down her gardening advice. In 1903 she published this work, the third in a very successful series of writings about gardening, cookery, travel and art, but the emphasis in this book is very much on the importance of diet to health, though there are plenty of other topics. The final section of the book contains the last letters home of Mrs Earle's son Sydney, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, who was killed late in 1899 during the Boer War.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

1. Health -- 2. Health of others -- 3. Supplement -- 4. Goats -- 5. Wholesome food on three shillings a week -- 6. Eighteen hundred a year -- 7. February -- 8. March -- 9. April -- 10. May -- 11. June -- 12. July -- 13. August -- 14. September -- 15. October -- 16. The journal of a tour in the north of Europe in 1825⁰₃́6 -- 17. The last letters of Captain Sydney Earle, Coldstream Guards -- Index

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