Following the success of our last two series on forgotten women gardeners we’re delighted to be introducing you to 4 more unsung heroines.

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 4 sessions at a cost of £16 via 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. 3 May: Women at Wrest: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 2. 10 May: Edith, Lady Londonderry: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 3. 17 May: Maud Grieve: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

Week 4. 24 May: Lady Henry Somerset: Part of a series of 4 online lectures, £5 each or all 4 for £16.

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Week 4. 24 May: A Gardening Philanthropist Lady Henry Somerset, (1851-1921) with Leanne Newman

The late nineteenth century is considered to be the golden age of British women’s philanthropy and an equally golden age of gardening. This talk will explore how and why some women incorporated gardening into their philanthropic agency. We will focus on Lady Henry Somerset and her use of gardens to rehabilitate women suffering from substance abuse, as seen in her work Beauty for Ashes published in 1899.

Leanne Newman has an MA in Garden and Landscape History and is a PhD candidate at the University of Southampton researching the use of gardening and landscape by women philanthropists in the period 1880-1920.

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