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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In SEL 64.3, Melissa Merte examines the relationship between Horticultural displays and the representation of nineteenth-century womanhood. Merte argues that Elizabeth Gaskell uses settings such as greenhouses and indoor aquariums to construct a relationship between botanical...

Painting of white water lilies in background. In the foreground, white text states "Through horticultural displays, Gaskell symbolically aligns maturation and the marriage plot with the compulsion to collect and display that defined the nineteenth-century interest in plant life. Melissa Merte, 'Greenhouses, Water Lilies and the Gendered Horticultural Displays of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters"

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and marital narrative pathways. Read the full article on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/998099 Photo Credit: Helena de Kay. ca. 1870–77. Water Lilies [Oil on canvas]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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