Ethel Turner's *The Ungardeners* (1925)
May. 26th, 2011 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emma_in_dreamI've just read a critical article by Susan K Martin - 'Gardening and the Cultivation of Australian National Space: the Writings of Ethel Turner' (Australian Feminist Studies, 18.42 (2003).
She describes *The Ungardeners* as follows: 'Not only is it not a children's book, it is not really a novel. It overlaps several genres. *The Ungardeners* is a blend of nineteenth-century nature-reform rhetoric, domestic diary, fairy tale, allegory, gardening book, plant catalogue, travelogue and quasi-socialist tract.'
A fairly accurate description, I think.
She describes *The Ungardeners* as follows: 'Not only is it not a children's book, it is not really a novel. It overlaps several genres. *The Ungardeners* is a blend of nineteenth-century nature-reform rhetoric, domestic diary, fairy tale, allegory, gardening book, plant catalogue, travelogue and quasi-socialist tract.'
A fairly accurate description, I think.
