No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence

353 Pages·2005·2.96 MB·English

by  Emily Herring Wilson

(cid:1)
No One Gardens Alone

No One Gardens Alone
A LIFE OF ELIZABETH LAWRENCE
EMILY HERRING WILSON
BEACON PRESS
BOSTON
BEACON PRESS
25 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892
www.beacon.org
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of
the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
© 2004 by Emily Herring Wilson
  
Printed in the United States of America
            
 
This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the uncoated paper / specifications

for permanence as revised in .
Text design by Christopher Kuntze
Composition by Wilsted & Taylor Publishing Services
   -- 
Wilson, Emily Herring.
No one gardens alone : a life of Elizabeth Lawrence / by Emily Herring Wilson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
--
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
 ‒ 
. Lawrence, Elizabeth, . . Gardeners—North Carolina—Charlotte—Biography.

. Women gardeners—North Carolina—Charlotte—Biography. I. Title.
. 
.  
' —
Lawrence photographs, Lawrence Family Papers (privately held), and the Lawrence and Way Collections at NSUL are
used with permission of Warren Way and Elizabeth Way Rogers. Eudora Welty photograph and letters are used with per-
mission of Mary Alice Welty White and Elizabeth Welty Thompson. Eudora Welty letter to Emmy and Bill Maxwell
used with permission of Mary Alice Welty White and Elizabeth Welty Thompson. Ruth Dormon and Caroline Dormon
letters used with permission of the Cammie Henry Library, Northwestern State University of Louisiana. Excerpts from
“The Little Bulbs,” by Elizabeth Lawrence, used with permission of Duke University Press. Ann Preston Bridgers Papers,
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, North Carolina. Ann Preston Bridgers photo-
graph used with permission of C.B. Squire. Photograph from The News & Observerof Raleigh, North Carolina, courtesy
of the North Carolina State Archives. The illustration by Kirk McCauley is from Carolina Gardener,Sept./Oct. 1992.
For Jane Hatcher

“I want you to know how much I have loved life
and how necessary it was just the way I played it.”
     
( )
“She was insidethe wonderful garden and she could
come through the door under the ivy any time and
she felt as if she had found a world all her own.”
  ,
The Secret Garden

(cid:1)
Contents

Prologue
 
·Family History
   
·Childhood –
   
·Raleigh –
   
·Barnard College –
 
·Peter and Elizabeth
   
·A Time for Reflection –
  
·Return to Raleigh
 
·Remembering
 
·Writing Poetry
 
·Garden Design
   
·A Writer’s Life –
 
·Writing A Southern Garden
 
·The Church
 
·Ann Lawrence
  
·The Move to Charlotte
 
·The Little Bulbs
 
·Writing a Garden Column
 
·Gardens in Winter
 
·Elizabeth and Her Friends
   
·A Friendship in Letters –
- 
·The Weltys of Jackson, Mississippi
-
·Gardening for Loveand

A Rock Garden in the South
-  
·Closing the Garden Gate

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index