{"product_id":"the-hothouse-flower-margaret-flanders-darby-9781915115003","title":"Hothouse Flower: Nurturing Women in the Victorian Conservatory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis most unusual book traces the interrelations of architecture, horticulture, literature, social history and gender.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Victorian conservatory and the lady enclosed within it proved to be ambivalent, enigmatic and self-contradictory. What began optimistically as protection ended as imprisonment. The metaphor offers a vision of fractured femininity, juxtaposing the vegetable against the human in a dialogue of disjunction and paradox.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The work is illustrated throughout with images from garden history texts, photographs, paintings and architectural drawings. It especially examines the critical ambivalence of the conservatory space and its paradoxes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By the middle of the Anglo-American nineteenth century, greenhouse design and gardening had developed to the point where writers and painters saw the heated glass conservatory as a space that captured symbolically the paradoxes of nurture and display thought \"natural\" to the Victorian lady.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a series of narrative encounters, some fictional, others historical, this book explores the implications of the introduction of \"Glass Consciousness\" which was most famously dramatized by Joseph Paxton's innovative Crystal Palace in 1851.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The author examines key figures and their works. These include Paxton, whose triumphs included being the first in England to bring an Amazonian water lily into flower. Dr. Darby also closely examines Nathaniel Ward's experiments and the work of Shirley Hibberd, John Stuart Mill and Donald Winnicott - all influential men who theorized nurture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Flanders Darby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915115000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915115003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Everett Root\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Margaret Flanders Darby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990701506815,"sku":"9781915115003","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e562079-20f2-4cad-aaeb-2652019649d1.jpg?v=1683306170","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-hothouse-flower-margaret-flanders-darby-9781915115003","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}