‘She changed the face of London’: statue to be unveiled of suffragist gardener

Fanny Wilkinson designed 75 parks in the capital, the first UK female landscape gardener to be paid for her workShe was a proto-feminist pioneer who blazed a trail for female gardeners and changed the face of London by creating “green lungs” in the capital for Victorians suffering from pollution and overcrowding.Now a charity is seeking to shine a light on Fanny Wilkinson, the UK’s first professional female landscape gardener, by unveiling the first ever statue of the suffragist at one of the 75 London parks she designed more than a century ago. Continue reading...

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