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Statue to Pay Tribute to UK's First Female Professional Landscape Gardener
The Guardian
|May 02, 2025
She 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.
"Fanny was an incredibly important figure in her time - and she was really inspirational," said Nicola Stacey, the director of Heritage of London Trust. "She trained as a gardener when women did not do so, and led the way for other women in being paid for her work, opening up opportunities for women in the profession of landscape design and gardening that, of course, many generations have since benefited from."
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