Tag Archives: Mattie Edwards Hewitt

The New Woman Photographer and the Society Clubwoman: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Zelia Hoffman, and the Garden Movement in America

Posted on June 1, 2024 by mansionmusings

This post is gratefully dedicated to Cheryl Hepburn Greenhalgh, the outgoing board president of Bartow-Pell, who has served from 2013 to 2016, and from 2019 to 2024. Every year at Armsea Hall, her palatial Newport estate overlooking Narragansett Bay, Zelia … Continue reading →

Alice Vaughan-Williams Martineau: An Englishwoman’s Crusade to Cultivate American Gardeners

Posted on June 26, 2019 by mansionmusings

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 →

Posted in Garden Musings, Mansion Musings | Tagged Alice Martineau, Armsea Hall, Cottage gardens, Edith Wharton, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Garden clubs in the early 20th century, Gardening in Sunny Lands, Hurst Court Berkshire, International Garden Club, John Munro and Mary Beecher Longyear, Margaret Waterfield, Martin C. Ebel, Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman, Mrs. Philip Martineau, RMS Olympic, The Herbaceous Garden, Wellsbridge Cottage, William Robinson, Zelia Hoffman | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: Mattie Edwards Hewitt

The New Woman Photographer and the Society Clubwoman: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Zelia Hoffman, and the Garden Movement in America

Alice Vaughan-Williams Martineau: An Englishwoman’s Crusade to Cultivate American Gardeners

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