Following the success of our series on gardeners last year we’re pleased to be offering six more lectures this time focusing on some less well-known women and their contributions to horticulture.

This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 6 sessions at a cost of £24 via the link here.

Due to a recent Apple decision to charge a 30% fee for paid online events unfortunately you may no longer be able to purchase this ticket from the Eventbrite iOS app. Please use a web browser on desktop or mobile to purchase, or follow the link here.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and a link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

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Week 1. 11 January. Introduction: Weeding, Writing and Illustrating: Part of a series of 6 online lectures, £5 each or all 6 for £24.

Week 2. 18 January. Alice ‘The All-Powerful’ - Alice de Rothschild (1847 – 1922): Part of a series of 6 online lectures, £5 each or all 6 for £24.

Week 3. 25 January. Petticoats and Plants - The Untold Story of Scotland’s Gardening Women 1800-1930: Part of a series of 6 online lectures, £5 each or all 6 for £24.

Week 4. 1 February. A Passion for Plants and Politics - Lady Dorothy Nevill at Dangstein: Part of a series of 6 online lectures, £5 each or all 6 for £24.

Week 5. 8 February. Miss Willmott’s Ghosts: The Gardens of Ellen Ann Willmott through her own lens: Part of a series of 6 online lectures, £5 each or all 6 for £24.

Week 6. 15 February. Viscountess Frances Wolseley at Glynde and Beyond: Part of a series of 6 online lectures, £5 each or all 6 for £24.

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Week 4. 1st February. A Passion for Plants and Politics: Lady Dorothy Nevill at Dangstein Sussex with Catherine Horwood

This talk focuses on the turbulent life of Lady Dorothy Nevill (1826-1913), who gardened at Dangstein, W. Sussex, where she amassed an enviable plant collection and interacted with Sir William Hooker of Kew and Charles Darwin. Although occasionally tainted by scandal, Lady Dorothy survived it all through a passion for both plants and politics.

Dr Catherine Horwood is an experienced speaker and the author of many books on social history including Gardening Women. Their Stories from 1600 to the Present (Virago, 2010) and Potted History - How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes (Pimpernel Press, 2020). Her biography Beth Chatto: A Life with Plants (Pimpernel Press, 2019) was selected as the European Garden Book of the Year in 2020.

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