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Gertrude Jekyll
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Garden designer, artist, editor (1843-1932)
OverviewAI-generated
Gertrude Jekyll was a British horticulturist, painter, non-fiction writer, and botanist born in London. She held citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Her professional activities in horticulture and gardening spanned from 1858 to 1932. She wrote in English and produced numerous works, including *Lilies for English Gardens. a Guide for Amateurs*, *Color Schemes for the Flower Garden*, and *Old English Household Life. Some account of cottage objects and country folk*.
Jekyll received the Veitch Memorial Medal and the Victoria Medal of Honour. Her writings and archives are held by the Smithsonian Institution and the Garden Museum. She died in Surrey on December 8, 1932.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Naissance d'un Jardin
- Lilies for English Gardens. a Guide for Amateurs
- Gardener's Essential Gertrude Jekyll
- Old English Household Life. Some account of cottage objects and country folk. With plates
- Color Schemes for the Flower Garden
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Selectivity of action of an antiherpetic agent, 9-(2-hydroxyethoxymethyl)guanine
· 1977 · cited 1,188x
- Immunofluorescence in Cells Derived from Burkitt's Lymphoma
· 1966 · cited 1,112x
- Further studies on the properties and assay of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase of rat liver
· 1953 · cited 1,067x
- Epstein–Barr Virus in Burkitt's Lymphoma and Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: EBV DNA in Biopsies of Burkitt Tumours and Anaplastic Carcinomas of the Nasopharynx
· 1970 · cited 971x
- 9-(2-Hydroxyethoxymethyl)guanine activity against viruses of the herpes group
· 1978 · cited 968x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”
- “Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- 29 November 1843, Mayfair, London, England
- Died
- 8 December 1932 (1932-12-08) (aged 89), Munstead Wood , Surrey, England
- Occupations
- Horticulturist garden designer photographer writer and artist
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gertrude
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Surrey
- Occupation
- editor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- gardening
- Image
- Gertrude Jekyll portrait.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gertrude Jekyll
- date of death
- 1932-12-08
- date of birth
- 1843-11-29
- Commons Creator page
- Gertrude Jekyll
- P6944
- Gertrude Jekyll
- ethnic group
- British
- artist files at
- Smithsonian Institution
- start of work period
- 1858-01-01
- end of work period
- 1932-01-01
- archives at
- Smithsonian Institution
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Gertrude Jekyll, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Gertrude Jekyll VMH (/ˈdʒiːkəl/ JEE-kəl; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1000 articles for magazines such as Country Life and William Robinson's The Garden. Jekyll has been described as "a premier influence in garden design" by British and American gardening enthusiasts.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gertrude Jekyll” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.