Catherine Horwood

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Catherine Horwood
BornCatherine Horwood
OccupationAuthor
Journalist
Biographer
NationalityBritish
GenreHorticulture
History
Fashion
Spouse Patrick Barwise
Website
catherinehorwood.com

Catherine Horwood is an English journalist, author and social historian who writes on horticulture, garden design, and in fashion, the history of dress. [1] She is the authorised biographer of the British plantswoman, garden designer, and author, Beth Chatto (creator of Beth Chatto Gardens [2] near Elmstead, Essex). Her biography, Beth Chatto: a life with plants won the European Garden Book of the Year award in 2020. [3]

Contents

Horwood has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to BBC Radio 4 programmes on social history. [4]

She is married to emeritus Professor Patrick Barwise.

Journalism

Horwood has written for English Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Good Housekeeping magazine, becoming Good Housekeeping's features editor. [5]

Academic career

Horwood completed a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Women's History, and a PhD on Interwar Middle Class dress codes at Royal Holloway, University of London. She was also an Honorary Research Fellow at University of London and has also been awarded fellowships at the Yale Center for British Art, [6] [7] and the Huntington Library, Art and Botanical Gardens at San Marino, CA.

Author

Horwood is the author of six books on horticulture, garden design and the social history of women in horticulture, and two books on fashion history. [8]

Horticulture

Dress

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References

  1. "Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Horwood: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle". www.amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  2. "The Gardens at Beth Chatto Gardens". Visit Essex. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  3. lifePR (c) 2002-2020 (13 March 2020). "Deutscher und Europäischer Gartenbuchpreis 2020 vergeben!, Freiherrliche Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung Dennenlohe, Pressemitteilung - lifePR". www.lifepr.de (in German). Retrieved 11 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. 1 2 Horwood, Catherine (1 June 2011). Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars. The History Press. ISBN   9780752495576 . Retrieved 8 January 2019 via Google Books.
  5. "Dr Catherine Horwood's stories about Gardening Women". Landscape Juice. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  6. Horwood, Catherine (6 May 2010). Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN   9780748118335 . Retrieved 8 January 2019 via Google Books.
  7. 1 2 Raymond, Francine (23 October 2010). "Lady gardening pioneers in a man's world" . Retrieved 8 January 2019 via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  8. Books; Biography: Catherine Horwood
  9. "The Pimpernel Press Ltd | Potted History - How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes, By Catherine Horwood". The Pimpernel Press Ltd. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  10. Horwood, Catherine (2019). Beth Chatto : a life with plants. London: Pimpernel Press Limited. ISBN   978-1-910258-82-8. OCLC   1084395894.
  11. Horwood, Catherine (15 December 2018). Rose. Reaktion Books. ISBN   9781789140132 . Retrieved 8 January 2019 via Google Books.
  12. Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Rose’
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  14. Horwood, Catherine (1 April 2012). Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today. Chicago Review Press. ISBN   9781613743409 . Retrieved 8 January 2019 via Google Books.
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  21. Horwood, Catherine (8 January 2019). Potted History: The Story of Plants in the Home. Frances Lincoln. ISBN   9780711228009 . Retrieved 8 January 2019 via Google Books.
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  24. Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars’
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  26. Horwood, Catherine (8 January 2019). Worst Fashions: What We Shouldn't Have Worn... But Did. History Press Limited. ISBN   9780750941594 . Retrieved 8 January 2019 via Google Books.
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