Catherine Horwood


Catherine Horwood is an English journalist, author and social historian who writes extensively on horticulture, garden design and, in fashion, the history of dress. She is the authorised biographer of the British plantswoman, garden designer and author, Beth Chatto. Her biography, won the r award in 2020.
Horwood has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to BBC Radio 4 programmes on social history.
She is married to emeritus Professor Patrick Barwise.

Journalism

Horwood has written for English Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Good Housekeeping magazine, becoming Good Housekeeping's features editor.

Academic career

Horwood completed a Master of Arts ) degree in Women's History, and a PhD on Interwar Middle Class dress codes at Royal Holloway, University of London. She was also an Honorary Research Fellow at University of London and has also been awarded fellowships at the Yale Center for British Art, and the Huntington Library, Art and Botanical Gardens at San Marino, CA.

Author

Horwood is the author of five books on horticulture, garden design and the social history of women in horticulture, and two books on fashion history.

Horticulture