The search for a gifted gardener cheated of a scholarship with the Royal Horticultural Society in 1898 because she was female was under way this weekend – just one of a number of efforts to move notable women from the footnotes of history.
The greenfingered “Miss Harrison” won a chance to train at the society in Chiswick by gaining top marks in its annual exam, but was blocked by its head, the Rev William Wilks. “Only males being allowed at Chiswick, it was never contemplated that a female might claim the scholarship,” he had ruled The society discovered the story while sifting through its archives and is trying to discover more about her fate.
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