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Eudora Welty, the Gardener

Eudora Welty, the Gardener by Sarah Gilbreath Ford Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940–1949. Ed. by Julia Eichelberger. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2013. xiii + 275 pp. $45 cloth. One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place. By Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown. Photographs by Langdon Clay. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011. ix + 272 pp. $35 cloth. Ebook available. Although Eudora Welty always referred to the garden at her 1119 Pinehurst, Jackson home as her mother’s garden and to herself as “my mother’s yard boy,” two recent books prove that Welty was a dedicated and passion- ate gardener in her own right. Julia Eichelberger in Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940–1949 collects Welty’s letters to her lit- erary agent, Diarmuid Russell, and to her romantic interest, John Robinson, who was away at war during most of this time period. Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown in One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place detail the plan- ning, construction, and ongoing eff ort by Welty’s mother, Chestina, and then by Eudora Welty herself, on the Pinehurst garden, placing this one garden in the larger context of gardening in American life. Readers of Welty’s fi ction will certainly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Eudora Welty, the Gardener

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The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 47 (1) – May 29, 2015
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by Sarah Gilbreath Ford Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940–1949. Ed. by Julia Eichelberger. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2013. xiii + 275 pp. $45 cloth. One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place. By Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown. Photographs by Langdon Clay. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2011. ix + 272 pp. $35 cloth. Ebook available. Although Eudora Welty always referred to the garden at her 1119 Pinehurst, Jackson home as her mother’s garden and to herself as “my mother’s yard boy,” two recent books prove that Welty was a dedicated and passion- ate gardener in her own right. Julia Eichelberger in Tell About Night Flowers: Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters, 1940–1949 collects Welty’s letters to her lit- erary agent, Diarmuid Russell, and to her romantic interest, John Robinson, who was away at war during most of this time period. Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown in One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place detail the plan- ning, construction, and ongoing eff ort by Welty’s mother, Chestina, and then by Eudora Welty herself, on the Pinehurst garden, placing this one garden in the larger context of gardening in American life. Readers of Welty’s fi ction will certainly

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