Ursula Buchan

Beauty in beastly surroundings

In The Gardens of the British Working Class, Margaret Willes follows the determined struggle of the poor to grow flowers

‘At the Cottage Door’, by Myles Birket Foster (1825–99) [Copyright: www.bridgemanart.com]

  • The Gardens of the British Working Class

    Margaret Willes

    Yale, pp. 413

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