1. Theresa Earle published three Pot-Pourri gardening guides starting in 1897.
11 Facts About Theresa Earle
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Theresa Earle was born in 1836 in London into the Villiers family Villiers family.
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Theresa Earle was invited to serve at Queen Victoria's court but refused in 1856.
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Theresa Earle's family gave her the nickname of "Radical Theresa".
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Theresa Earle had help from one gardener and his boy assistant.
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Theresa Earle had been encouraged to write this by friends and had been supported by her niece Constance Lytton who typed some of the text.
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Theresa Earle died at her home, Woodlands, in Cobham in 1925.
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Theresa Earle married Captain Charles William Earle at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in 1864 after he returned from service with the army in India.
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Theresa Earle advocated a vegetarian diet in her book Diet Difficulties with Notes on Growing Vegetables, published in 1908.
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Theresa Earle promoted a fruit and vegetable diet in which coffee and tea are forbidden.
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Theresa Earle was Constance Lytton's aunt and converted her to vegetarianism.