The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden

Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats

Kate Felus (Independent Historian, UK), Roy Strong

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English

I B TAURIS
21 June 2016

British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social & cultural history; Gardening

Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden

has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation.

But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.

Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about 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 eighteenth 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, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.

By: Kate Felus (Independent Historian UK)
Foreword by: Roy Strong
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 529g
ISBN: 9781784535728
ISBN 10: 1784535729
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 21 June 2016
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Felus is a garden historian and historic landscape consultant. She researches designed landscapes of all periods, specializing particularly in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century parks and gardens.

Reviews for The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden: Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats

an enticing new study...Felus's book is itself an entertainment, written with a light touch and - like a good party - of just the right length. Its scholarly underpinnings are fully present and correct...generously illustrated with apposite figures...Strongly recommended. --Paul Stamper, parksandgardens.org, January 2017