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Archive Reference / Library Class No.LS/712.6
TitleThe secret life of the Georgian garden: beautiful objects & agreeable retreats.
Date2016
Publication Date2016
AuthorFelus, Kate
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
ISBN9781784535728
AbstractIllustrated throughout, this volume focuses on the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the 18th century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude, as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener.
TermGeorgian period
Gardens

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Brown; Lancelot (1716-1783); Landscape gardener; redesigned Chatsworth park and gardens in 1760.
Devonshire; Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (1757-1806); Duchess; First wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.
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Chatsworth 
Kedleston Hall 
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