Catherine Horwood Explained

Catherine Horwood
Birth Name:Catherine Horwood
Nationality:British
Genre:Horticulture
History
Fashion
Occupation:Author
Journalist
Biographer
Spouse:Patrick Barwise

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]

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 Housekeepings 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

A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today - (Chicago Review Press, 2012)[13] [14]

Their Stories From 1600 to the Present - (Virago, 2010)[15] [16] [17]

The Story of Plants in the Home - (Frances Lincoln Publishers, 2007)[18] [19]

Dress

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Horwood: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle. www.amazon.co.uk. 8 January 2019.
  2. Web site: The Gardens at Beth Chatto Gardens . Visit Essex. 23 June 2019.
  3. Web site: lifePR (c) 2002-2020. 2020-03-13. Deutscher und Europäischer Gartenbuchpreis 2020 vergeben!, Freiherrliche Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung Dennenlohe, Pressemitteilung - lifePR. 2020-06-11. www.lifepr.de. de-DE.
  4. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars. 1 June 2011. The History Press. 9780752495576. 8 January 2019. Google Books.
  5. Web site: Dr Catherine Horwood's stories about Gardening Women. Landscape Juice. 8 January 2019.
  6. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. 6 May 2010. Little, Brown Book Group. 9780748118335. 8 January 2019. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Lady gardening pioneers in a man's world. Francine. Raymond. 23 October 2010. 8 January 2019. www.telegraph.co.uk.
  8. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catherine-Horwood/e/B001MOTM7A Books; Biography: Catherine Horwood
  9. Web site: The Pimpernel Press Ltd Potted History - How Houseplants Took Over Our Homes, By Catherine Horwood. 2020-11-11. The Pimpernel Press Ltd. en-GB.
  10. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Beth Chatto : a life with plants. 2019. Pimpernel Press Limited. 978-1-910258-82-8. London. 1084395894.
  11. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Rose. 15 December 2018. Reaktion Books. 9781789140132. 8 January 2019. Google Books.
  12. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rose-Botanical-Catherine-Horwood/dp/1789140137/ref=la_B001MOTM7A_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542650793&sr=1-1 Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Rose’
  13. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today. 1 April 2012. Chicago Review Press. 9781613743409. 8 January 2019. Google Books.
  14. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Their-Gardens-History-Elizabethan/dp/1613743378/ref=la_B001MOTM7A_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542650793&sr=1-5 Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today’
  15. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present. 6 May 2010. Little, Brown Book Group. 9780748118335. 8 January 2019. Google Books.
  16. Book: Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present: Amazon.co.uk: Dr Catherine Horwood: 9781844084630: Books. .
  17. Web site: Gardening Women by Catherine Horwood. 18 June 2010. The Independent. 8 January 2019.
  18. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Potted History: The Story of Plants in the Home. 8 January 2019. Frances Lincoln. 9780711228009. 8 January 2019. Google Books.
  19. Book: Potted History: The Story of Plants in the Home: Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Horwood: 9780711228009: Books. .
  20. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keeping-Up-Appearances-Fashion-Between/dp/0752460501/ref=la_B001MOTM7A_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542650793&sr=1-2 Amazon Books: Catherine Horwood: ‘Keeping Up Appearances: Fashion and Class Between the Wars’
  21. Book: Horwood, Catherine. Worst Fashions: What We Shouldn't Have Worn... But Did. 8 January 2019. History Press Limited. 9780750941594. 8 January 2019. Google Books.
  22. Book: Worst Fashions: What We Shouldn't Have Worn. But Did: Amazon.co.uk: Catherine Horwood: 9780750941594: Books. .

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