Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautificat

Description: Behind the Privet Hedge by Michael Gilson Unearths the British national obsession with the suburban garden. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The surprising origin story of Britains love affair with suburban gardening. It is said that Britain is a nation of gardeners and its suburban gardens with roses and privet hedges are widely admired and copied across the world. But how and why did millions across the United Kingdom develop an obsession with colourful plots of land to begin with? Behind the Privet Hedge seeks to answer this question and reveals how, despite their stereotype as symbols of dull middle-class conformity, these open spaces were once seen as a tool to bring about social change in the early twentieth century. The book restores to the story a remarkable but long-forgotten figure, Richard Sudell, who spent a lifetime evangelising for gardens as the vanguard of a more egalitarian society.Gilsons book is a charming and unexpected glimpse into how gardening took root as an obsession for millions, full of suburban heroes and villains, revolutions and conformity. John Grindrod, author of Iconicon: A Journey around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain Author Biography Michael Gilson is an award-winning editor and journalist, and Associate Fellow of the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex. Table of Contents Introduction: On the train to Roehampton with Edith Sitwell and DH LawrenceChapter One: A little Garden CityChapter Two: An industrial slave? NeverChapter Three: Trouble at the Whit Monday Garden ShowChapter Four: The Birth of beautificationChapter Five: Sudell the flower evangelistChapter Six: Taste is utterly debasedChapter Seven: There were little bridges, gnomes and thingsChapter Eight: An unrivalled influence on new nation of gardenersChapter Nine: A new Britain must arise on better lines than the oldChapter Ten: The landscape architect struggles to make a markChapter Eleven: An important and influential figureChapter Twelve: The importance of playChapter Thirteen: Sudell urges us to invite Betty Uprichard into our gardenChapter Fourteen: Sudell has been proved rightReferencesAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex Review "In a fascinating new study of Sudell and suburban gardens, Behind the Privet Hedge, the author Michael Gilson dubs his subject the patron saint of crazy paving. He was also a radical, a democrat and a visionary."-- "The Guardian""The radical demand for the right to a garden as part of the post-war covenant is much less well-known. Thanks to Behind the Privet Hedge, Michael Gilsons new history of the enthusiastic gardening movement that accompanied the public housing movement between the wars, that lack has now been remedied . . . a very good book."-- "The New English Landscape""If Behind the Privet Hedge were simply a life of a professional gardener, it would be interesting enough . . . but this book is also a vivid picture of landscape architecture as it developed in the middle years of the century."-- "Daily Telegraph" Details ISBN178914860X Author Michael Gilson Pages 336 Publisher Reaktion Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781789148602 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-05-01 Imprint Reaktion Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 45 illustrations, 10 in colour Audience General UK Release Date 2024-05-01 AU Release Date 2024-07-31 Subtitle Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain DEWEY 712.6094109 ISBN-10 178914860X We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161122759;

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