Molly is a PhD student, writer and houseplant hobbyist. You may have seen her work at your favorite book shop. Maybe you’ve seen her plant content on Instagram or read her advice column.
However you got here, welcome to the literary greenhouse.
Molly Williams is the author of Jane Austen’s Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels; The Junior Plant Lover’s Handbook: A Green-Thumb Guide for Kids; How to Speak Flower; Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant; and Killer Plants: Growing and Caring for Flytraps, Pitcher Plants and Other Deadly Flora.
Molly is a Gates Cambridge scholar and an English PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation, Nature Under Glass: Decoding the Depictions of Captured Nature in Victorian Gothic Literature, examines how Victorian-era gothic literature builds plant-centered narratives, with a central focus on glasshouses and other contained environments.
She is an avid houseplant collector, gardener, florist, and teacher of many things, including writing.
If you would like to reach her, she’s probably in a greenhouse somewhere, or you can visit her Instagram — @theplantladi.
