Frances Garnet Wolseley

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Frances Garnet Wolseley , 2nd Viscountess Wolseley (born September 15, 1872 in Pimlico , London ; † December 24, 1936 in Culpepers, Ardingly , Sussex ) was an English garden designer and landscape architect who, as the founder of a gardening academy and author, established this professional profile for Women pushed forward.

Life

Frances Wolseley was the only child of Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833-1913), later Viscount Wolseley, and Louisa Erskine (1843-1920). She enjoyed a private schooling and was introduced at court, but refused a marriage and the conventions of her high social origin in favor of a horticultural training. In 1899 the Trevor family moved into House in Glynde , where Frances Wolseley was able to pursue her horticultural and landscape interests. With her garden academy, founded in 1902, she moved to the Ragged Lands estate outside the village five years later . In 1913 she inherited the Viscountcy from her father and moved with her mother to Massets Place near Lindfield, West Sussex . In 1920 she moved to Culpepers, Ardingly, West Sussex, where she died in 1936 after a long illness. She was buried near her previous home, in St. Andrew's, Beddingham, East Sussex . Since she was unmarried and childless, the title of count expired on her death.

Create

At Trevor House, Glynde, East Sussex, Frances Wolseley began teaching horticulture and garden design to young women in 1902 . Five years later, for reasons of space, she moved her "Glynde College for Lady Gardeners" from her home garden to the 2 hectare Ragged Lands estate outside Glynde. The college offered two-year courses, which Country Life magazine reported in November 1909. It is said to have been under the auspices of well-known garden architects such as Gertrude Jekyll , Ellen Willmott , and William Robinson . Frances Wolseley led the college until 1918, later it was continued by successors until 1933.

Frances Garnet Wolseley: "Gardens, their form an design" (1919)
From Frances Wolseley's book "Gardens, their form an design" (1919)

Gradually, Frances Wolseley's interest shifted from the day-to-day management of the college to promoting the job of gardening for women. In 1908, her first book, Gardening for Women , appeared on ways women could use horticulture to strengthen the rural economy. During this time she toured gardens and gardening academies in England , Canada and South Africa . In 1913 she was accepted into the Worshipful Company of Gardeners of the City of London ( guild , professional association of gardeners). In 1916 her most important book, Women on the Land, appeared on the organization of small businesses and market cooperatives, women's institutes and horticulture as a subject for schools. Her other titles included In a College Garden (1916) on the work of the Kollegs und Gardens, their Form and Design (1919), which a decade later contributed to the emergence of landscape architecture as a discipline. Her later work dealt mainly with regional architecture and history.

Frances Wolseley bequeathed her estate to the Hove Corporation and provided funds for library improvements and the creation of a Wolseley room. The material is kept in the special collections of the Hove Library. In 1939 she published her biography The Wolseley Heritage by Marjory Pegram.

literature

  • Marjory Pegram: The Wolseley heritage: the story of Frances viscountess Wolseley and her parents . John Murray, London 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour - Frances Wolseley. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Wolseley, Frances Garnet, Viscountess Wolseley (1872-1936), gardener and author. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ "Viscountess Wolseley". In: The Times. December 28, 1936, p. 12 ( gale.com ).
  4. ^ A b Parks and Gardens (en): Frances Garnet Wolseley. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Ragged Lands. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
  6. ↑ School of Gardeneing - 1905. In: Sussex Express on April 22, 1905. Accessed June 18, 2020 .
  7. ^ Judy Middleton: Hove in the Past: Hove Library. In: Hove in the Past. November 12, 2018, accessed June 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ OpenLibrary.org: The Wolseley heritage | Open Library. Retrieved June 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wolseley, Frances Garnet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English garden designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Pimlico , London
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1936
Place of death Culpepers, Ardingly , Sussex