This book offers the first sustained account of ornamental gardening in Regency Britain, revealing a vivid, feminine-inflected landscape where horticulture, fashion and sociability intertwined. Behind this world of perfume and spectacle lay a striking social shift. These stages for alfresco entertainments were devised by women, working with designers to realize their visions of exuberant pleasure grounds.
All Around is Fairy Ground has been reviewed in Literary Review and Country Life.
Delivery costs to the UK: £6.95
This book offers the first sustained account of ornamental gardening in Regency Britain, revealing a vivid, feminine-inflected landscape where horticulture, fashion and sociability intertwined. Behind this world of perfume and spectacle lay a striking social shift. These stages for alfresco entertainments were devised by women, working with designers to realize their visions of exuberant pleasure grounds.
All Around is Fairy Ground has been reviewed in Literary Review and Country Life.
Delivery costs to the UK: £6.95
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