Virgins, Weeders and Queens

"Virgins, weeders and queens explores the full range of women's involvement in the garden: from the downtrodden medieval weeding woman and housewife to eighteenth-century nobility seeking retreat and solace through horticulture, from anxious Victorian women wondering how one gardened in corsets to their adventurous plant-hunting 'sisters', and up to the modern day." --book jacket.