Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949

by Eudora Welty, Julia Eichelberger (Editor)

Overview

A collection of the garden correspondence of a great American writer and gardener

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617031885
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	07/08/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Julia Eichelberger is the Mary Belle Higgins Howe Professor of Southern Literature at the College of Charleston. She is the author of Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, and Eudora Welty and articles in the Eudora Welty Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and other publications.

Date of Birth:

April 13, 1909

Date of Death:

July 23, 2001

Place of Birth:

Jackson, Mississippi

Place of Death:

Jackson, Mississippi

Education:

University of Wisconsin

Editorial Reviews

Tell about Night Flowers is a joy to read. The gardening letters Eudora Welty exchanged with Diarmuid Russell and John Robinson are by turns witty, pensive, wry, mystical, metaphorical, and practical. Julia Eichelberger introduces and annotates these letters with grace and with keen insight into the profound connection that gardening and creativity had for Welty.--Suzanne Marrs, editor of What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell and author of Eudora Welty: A Biography

This delightful collection of Welty letters displays not only a generous wit and capacity for friendship but the writer's responsive connection to the material world. We see how easily she appropriates the language of the garden for rich scenic detail in her writing--and then often transforms that detail, as she does in her fiction, into striking, memorable metaphor. Eichelberger deepens our knowledge of Welty in a book that is a great pleasure to read!--Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Millsaps College Humanities Scholar in Residence and author of Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography

This is a beautiful book, a compelling and lovingly rendered gathering of letters that allows a peek inside the twin gardens Ms. Welty tended with such love and care: that of her home there in Jackson, and that of her art. I have never read a book like this--part life of the mind and life of the gardener, intimate and meaningful and startlingly inspired.--Bret Lott, author of Jewel and Ancient Highway

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