Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Major, Judith K.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer a landscape critic in the gilded age / [electronic resource] : Judith K. Major. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - xii, 285 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Portraits of a lady -- The education of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer -- A career begins -- A new field of study: landscape gardening -- Historical sketches on the art of gardening -- Traces in garden and forest -- A turning point--1893 -- While garden and forest lived -- Changes -- The aesthetics of life -- Appendix A: Garden and forest editorials and unsigned articles written by M. G. Van Rensselaer -- Appendix B: Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer chronology.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934.


Landscape architecture--Philosophy--History.--United States


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