Catherine Horwood
Catherine Horwood is an English journalist, author and social historian who writes extensively 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 (best known for creating the Beth Chatto Gardens[2] near Elmstead, Essex and described as ‘one of the most influential horticulturalists for the last 50 years’).[3] Her biography, Beth Chatto: a life with plants won the European Garden Book of the Year award in 2020.[4]
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Born | Catherine Horwood |
Occupation | Author Journalist Biographer |
Nationality | British |
Genre | Horticulture History Fashion |
Spouse | Patrick Barwise |
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Horwood has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to BBC Radio 4 programmes on social history.[5]
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.[6]
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,[7][8] 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.[9]
Horticulture
- Potted History. How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes - (Pimpernel Press, 2020)[10]
- Beth Chatto: A life with plants - (Pimpernel Press, 2019)[11]
- Rose - (Reaktion, 2018)[12][13][14]
- Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today - (Chicago Review Press, 2012)[15][16][17]
- Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present - (Virago, 2010)[18][8][19][20][21]
- Potted History: The Story of Plants in the Home - (Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2007)[22][23][24]
Dress
- Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars - (The History Press, 2011)[5][25][26]
- Worst Fashions: What We Shouldn't Have Worn. But Did - (Sutton, 2005)[27][28][29]
References
- "Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Horwood: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle". www.amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- "The Gardens at Beth Chatto Gardens". Visit Essex. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- Hobhouse, Penelope (14 May 2018). "Beth Chatto obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- 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.
- 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.
- "Dr Catherine Horwood's stories about Gardening Women". Landscape Juice. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- 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.
- Raymond, Francine (23 October 2010). "Lady gardening pioneers in a man's world". Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- Books; Biography: Catherine Horwood
- "The Pimpernel Press Ltd | Potted History - How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes, By Catherine Horwood". The Pimpernel Press Ltd. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- Horwood, Catherine (2019). Beth Chatto : a life with plants. London: Pimpernel Press Limited. ISBN 978-1-910258-82-8. OCLC 1084395894.
- Horwood, Catherine (15 December 2018). Rose. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781789140132. Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via Google Books.
- Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Rose’
- [ISBN 978-1789140132]
- 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.
- Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today’
- [ISBN 978-1613743379]
- 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.
- Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present: Amazon.co.uk: Dr Catherine Horwood: 9781844084630: Books. ASIN 1844084639.
- "Gardening Women by Catherine Horwood". The Independent. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- [ISBN 978-1844084630]
- 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.
- Potted History: The Story of Plants in the Home: Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Horwood: 9780711228009: Books. ASIN 0711228000.
- [ISBN 978-0711228009]
- Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars’
- [ISBN 978-0752460505]
- 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.
- Worst Fashions: What We Shouldn't Have Worn. But Did: Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Horwood: 9780750941594: Books. ASIN 0750941596.
- [ISBN 978-0750941594]
External links
- Catherine Horwood Official website
- Amazon Books Biography Official website
- Telegraph interview Official website
- Gardening Women Official website