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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
LS/712.6
Title
The secret life of the Georgian garden: beautiful objects & agreeable retreats.
Date
2016
Publication Date
2016
Author
Felus, Kate
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
ISBN
9781784535728
Abstract
Illustrated 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.
Term
Georgian 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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Type
Chatsworth
Kedleston Hall
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