Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 38: Trees

In this episode, your host takes a walk in the woods to consider trees!

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Desmond, Ray. “A Bibliography of Garden History.” Garden History 18, no. 1 (1990): i–xv. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1586985.

Mabey, Richard. 2015. The Cabaret of Plants : Botany and the Imagination. London: Profile Books.

Varpalotai, Aniko. 2019. “L.M. MONTGOMERY AND THE MATTER OF NATURE.” Canadian Woman Studies 34(1–2):186–87.

Gammel, Irene. 2010. “Embodied Landscape Aesthetics in Anne of Green Gables.” The Lion and the Unicorn (Brooklyn) 34(2):228–47. doi: 10.1353/uni.0.0494.

Here are some resources for further exploration, focusing on reputable sources:

"A Green and Pleasant Land': Trees and National Identity in Victorian Britain" by Tim Harris in Environmental History (scholarly journal article)

"The Victorian Tree: Symbol and Reality" by Michael J. Watts in Victorian Studies (scholarly journal article)

Victorian Tree Project Websites: Websites of well-regarded institutions like The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Gates, Barbara T. “Introduction: Why Victorian Natural History?” Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 2 (2007): 539–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40347173.

DENISOFF, DENNIS. “Introduction: Fluid Margins: Natural Environments in Victorian Culture.” Victorian Review 36, no. 2 (2010): 7–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41413842.

Lightman, Bernard. “The Story of Nature: Victorian Popularizers and Scientific Narrative.” Victorian Review 25, no. 2 (2000): 1–29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27794932.

Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence. 2014. Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Teukolsky, Rachel. “Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics.” PMLA 122, no. 3 (2007): 711–27. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25501739.

Helmreich, Anne. 2016. Nature’s Truth : Photography, Painting, and Science in Victorian Britain. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

Adkins, Peter, and Wendy Parkins. 2018. “Introduction: Victorian Ecology and the Anthropocene.” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 2018(26):1-. doi: 10.16995/ntn.818.

Robertson, Ben P. (Ben Preston). 2016. Romantic Sustainability : Endurance and the Natural World, 1780-1830. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Ritvo, Harriet. Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 32, no. 1 (2000): 142–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/4054026.

Dodgshon, Robert A. The Journal of Modern History 55, no. 3 (1983): 530–33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1878613.

Woudstra, Jan, and Camilla Allen, eds. 2022. The Politics of Street Trees. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Blair, Kirstie, and William V. Thompson. “THE MOOD OF THE GOLDEN AGE: PAGANISM, ECOTHEOLOGY AND THE WILD WOODS IN L.M. MONTGOMERY’S ‘ANNE’ AND ‘EMILY SERIES.’” Literature and Theology 30, no. 2 (2016): 131–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44490839.