Cecile Hulse Matschat

Cecile Hulse Matschat (1895 - 1976) was an American geographer and botanist, known best as the author of books on gardens, gardening and the Okefenokee Swamp. Her Rivers of America book on the Suwannee River —Suwanee River: Strange Green Land (Farrar & Rinehart, 1938)— provided rare insight into the society and history of the people of the Okefenokee Swamp. Matschat was a member of the Society of Woman Geographers from 1937 to 1966.^[1]

Works

Mexican Plants for American Gardens (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1935)
The Garden Calendar (Houghton Mifflin, 1936)
The Garden Primers (Houghton Mifflin, 1937), illustrated by Jean Martin
- How to Make a Garden
- Planning the Home Grounds
- Annuals and Perennials
- Shrubs and Trees
- Bulbs and House Plants
Suwanee River: Strange Green Land (Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1938), illus. Alexander Key – Volume 3 of the Rivers of America Series
Seven Grass Huts: An Engineer's Wife in Central And South America (Farrar & Rinehart, 1939), illus. Matschat
American Wild Flowers (Random House, New York, 1940)
Preacher on Horseback (Farrar & Rinehart, 1940; Cassell, London, 1941)
Murder in Okefenokee (Farrar & Rinehart, 1941)
American Butterflies and Moths (Random House, 1942), illus. Rudolf Freund
Tavern in the Town (Farrar & Rinehart, 1942; Cassell, 1944)
Highway to Heaven (Farrar & Rinehart, 1942)
Murder at the Black Crook' (Farrar & Rinehart, 1943; Cassell, 1945)
Ladd of the Big Swamp: A Story of the Okefenokee Settlement (John C. Winston, Philadelphia, 1954), illus. Alexander Key
Animals Of The Valley Of The Amazon (Abelard-Schuman, New York, 1965), illus. Edward Osmond

References

↑ Ruth Oldenziel (1999). Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 90-5356-381-4.

External links

Cecile Hulse Matschat at Library of Congress Authorities — with 19 catalog records

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[1] Ruth Oldenziel (1999). Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 90-5356-381-4.