Gertrude Jekyll: Gardener Extraordinaire
Gertrude Jekyll was an important garden designer and writer whose work is still important today. Gertrude Jekyll was born in 1819 in England. She spent much of her early life traveling and pursuing her passion for photography, painting, ... [... more]
Old House Web |
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: ...
 Amazon.com Review: A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many of the troubles in the Middle East, including the Gulf War. In 1918, Gertrude Bell drew the region's proposed boundaries on a piece of tracing paper. Her [... more]
$27.50
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Gertrude Jekyll - English Garden
Gertrude Jekyll was born in 1843, at a time when a woman working in a garden was looked on with disapproval. Women could wander down a garden path, admiring the flowers and perhaps cutting a few to arrange in the house, but actually getting your ... [... more]
Bella Online |
GERTRUDE BELLE ELION (1918-1999)
On February 21, 1999, Gertrude Belle Elion died at the age of 81. In a career spanning over 40 years, Elion invented some of the 20th century's most significant lifesaving drugs. Elion was born in New York City in 1918. Her childhood love of ... [... more]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania--a fact she took perverse pleasure in--on February 3, 1874, into a family as vividly unconventional as one might expect of such a free spirit. Her grandparents were German-Jewish immigrants who ... [... more]
Random House |
Gertrude and Claudius
John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe [... more]
$9.94
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Gertrude Chandler Warner
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny, four orphaned brothers and sisters, suddenly appear in a small town. No one knows who these young wanderers are or where they have come from. Frightened to live with a grandfather they have never met, the children ... [... more]
Random House |
Something on My Own: Gertrude Berg and American ...
Something on My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting =, 1929-1956 [... more]
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Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914
Very highly recommended reading for women's studies: Gertrude Bell was an English woman who lived an extraordinary life of adventure. She rode with bandits, braved desert shamals, was captured by Bedouins, and sojourned in a harem. The counselor to kings [... more]
$29.95
Amazon.com |
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein (AKA G M P); Many ...
Author: Gertrude Stein Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781406830194 ISBN: 1406830194 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: 2006-10-02 [... more]
$13.90
Amazon.com |
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb taught for twenty-three years at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where she was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1978. Now Professor Emeritus, she lives with her husband, ... [... more]
Random House |
Rosa 'Ausbord' GERTRUDE JEKYLL
Shrub or mixed border. Cottage, wild or rose garden. Excellent specimen. Also effective as a hedge. This upright, bushy, shrub rose is a David Austin English rose which typically grows 4-8' tall and 4-6' wide. Size depends in large part on ... [... more]
Missouri Botanical Garden |
