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In a 1905 novel by Irish novelist Rosa Mulholland, A Girl’s Ideal, an ideal garden is described:
Here the flowers overran every space in a happy profusion, encouraged to enjoy their liberty, and to feel themselves old-established inhabitants, not afraid of a chopping spade, ruthless or careless, or of a notice to quit just when they had thought to make themselves a lasting dwelling. Yet there was no ragged disorder; all irregularities were trained into loveliness and allowed to make beauty after their own wayward fashion.1
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Cahill, S. (2014). Making Space for the Irish Girl. In: Moruzi, K., Smith, M.J. (eds) Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840–1950. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356352_12
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