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Hollyhocks and cabbages, roses and runner beans: the English cottage garden combines beauty and utility, pride and productivity. Immortalised in images of thatched cottages with flower-filled borders, what was the reality of the cottage garden? For many, the garden was essential to keep food on the table. For those more fortunate, the garden was a blaze of colour and a status symbol. Gardens did not just appeal to the senses, however: they played a philosophical and moral role in society, and thus in our social history. Visions of the rural cottager were never far from the mind of the Victorian middle classes, whether as a shining example to the indigent urban poor, or as an aesthetic and social ideal of a utopian 'merrie England'.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Cottage Garden
• Author: Twigs Way
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• EAN: 9780747808183
• ISBN: 074780818X
• ID: 04360339
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 158 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 150 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. April 2011

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