{"product_id":"2026200013693-secondhand-miss-jekyll-portrait-of-a-great-gardener","title":"Miss Jekyll: Portrait Of A Great Gardener","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wore heavy boots, carried a notebook everywhere, and saw the garden not as decoration but as art — Gertrude Jekyll was one of the most transformative figures in the history of landscape design, and Betty Massingham's Miss Jekyll: Portrait of a Great Gardener brings her remarkable life into vivid focus. This authoritative biography chronicles the life and legacy of Jekyll, from her early training as a painter — heavily influenced by the Impressionist movement — to her partnership with architect Edwin Lutyens, through which she helped reshape the English country garden with her signature painterly use of colour and texture. Massingham presents a woman of fierce intellect, boundless creative energy, and deep practical knowledge, drawing on Jekyll's own writings and the gardens she left as her lasting monument.\n\nBeyond the personal narrative, this portrait situates Jekyll within the broader Arts and Crafts movement, illustrating how her philosophy of harmonising art, nature, and craftsmanship forever changed horticultural practice on both sides of the Atlantic. Massingham's prose is warm yet precise, befitting a subject whose genius lay in the careful orchestration of wild beauty, and the result is a biography that speaks to gardeners, art historians, and lovers of English cultural life alike. For anyone who has ever paused before a perfectly composed border and wondered at the mind behind it, this account of Jekyll's singular vision offers an answer — and an inspiration that lingers long after the last page is turned.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160921383131,"sku":"2026200013693-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/46941595-a07a-418d-8754-927910b8b7d6.png?v=1787188400","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013693-secondhand-miss-jekyll-portrait-of-a-great-gardener","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}