Alan Emmet

Background

Alan was born on August 8, 1927 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. She is the daughter of John, an engineer, and Jean (Ingersoll) Summersby.

Education

In 1950 Alan finished Radcliffe College and got Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1977 Alan got a certificate, having mastered Radcliffe’s Landscape Design Program.

Career

From 1978 till 1981 Alan worked as a course assistant at Historic Landscape Preservation, Harvard University Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Moreover, from 1982 to 1992 she served as a consultant at Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Also, since 1993 till 1994 Emmet held the post of a consultant at National Trust for Historic Preservation. Since 1994 she acted as a full-time writer.

Works

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• book

  • Our Side of the River: a Memoir

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    2015
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, the changing of a landscape 1978
  • So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens (Library of New England) 1996
  • Mr. and Mrs. Club 2002

Membership

• Alan Emmet is a member of advisory committee of the organization.

  The Garden Conservancy , United States

• Alan is a trustee of the organization.

  Historic New England , United States

Interests

• Reading and gardening.

Connections

On August 21, 1948, Alan got married with Richard S. Emmet, an attorney. The couple had three children.

Father:

John Summersby

Mother:

Jean (Ingersoll) Summersby

husband:

Richard S. Emmet

On July 27, 2007 he died.