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Alice Vaughan-Williams Martineau: An Englishwoman’s Crusade to Cultivate American Gardeners
On September 24, 1913, the British writer and garden designer Alice Martineau (ca. 1865–1956) set sail from Southampton for New York on the White Star Line’s legendary RMS Olympic, the enormous luxury ocean liner that was the sister ship of … Continue reading
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