An Almost Impossible Thing: Pioneering Women Gardeners
Fiona Davison, Head of Libraries and Exhibitions at the Royal Horticultural Society, has written and will be speaking about the “quiet revolutionaries hidden in plain sight”, women who chose to dedicate their lives to horticultural careers.
Her new book, An Almost Impossible Thing, (Little Toller Books, 2023) follows six women gardeners in the years before the First World War, and examines their lives in the context of suffragism, collectivism and Empire. Although gardens are often seen as a refuge, a place to escape from the troubles of the modern world, this book looks back to a period when British gardens were an arena for radical and far-reaching experiments. A time when the ability to cultivate land was mobilised by a group of convention-busting women who wanted to change the world.
Time: 18:30 BST
