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Author Major, Judith K.

Title Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer [electronic resource] : a landscape critic in the gilded age / Judith K. Major.

Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

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Description xii, 285 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Portraits of a lady -- The education of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer -- A career begins -- A new field of study: landscape gardening -- Historical sketches on the art of gardening -- Traces in garden and forest -- A turning point--1893 -- While garden and forest lived -- Changes -- The aesthetics of life -- Appendix A: Garden and forest editorials and unsigned articles written by M. G. Van Rensselaer -- Appendix B: Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer chronology.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934.
Landscape architecture -- United States -- Philosophy -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813933924 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813934556 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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