As one of the pioneering women garden designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Gertrude Jekyll is widely credited with having invented the modern perennial garden. Through her long partnership with the architect Edwin Lutyens, she created some of the most beloved gardens of England, as well as projects in France, Ireland, and the United States. The work of subsequent garden designers such as Beatrix Farrand is unimaginable without Jekyll’s influence. Less well known is that due to a degenerative eye condition, Jekyll became legally blind by midlife and took up the camera as a way of seeing the landscapes she loved and those she made. This richly illustrated talk by James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director, will take us on a summer armchair tour of a few of Jekyll’s garden designs, as well as her achievement as a woman who pioneered new ways of seeing in the early 20th century.
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Spanish-language live closed-captioning for this program is made possible by the Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council.
