Mansions in Bloom
Ruth Richardson, 23 May 1991
A Paradise out of a Common Field: The Pleasures and Plenty of the Victorian Garden
by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards.
Century, 256 pp., £16.95, May 1990,0 7126 2209 8 Show More
by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards.
Century, 256 pp., £16.95, May 1990,
Private Gardens of London
by Arabella Lennox-Boyd.
Weidenfeld, 224 pp., £25, September 1990,0 297 83025 2 Show More
by Arabella Lennox-Boyd.
Weidenfeld, 224 pp., £25, September 1990,
The Greatest Glasshouse: The Rainforest Recreated
edited by Sue Minter.
HMSO, 216 pp., £25, July 1990,0 11 250035 8 Show More
edited by Sue Minter.
HMSO, 216 pp., £25, July 1990,
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865
by Albion Urdank.
California, 448 pp., $47.50, May 1990,0 520 06670 7 Show More
by Albion Urdank.
California, 448 pp., $47.50, May 1990,
“... The garden whose pleasures and plenty are described in A Paradise out of a Common Field is neither typical nor representative. Its owner is extremely rich, and its location a Victorian form of Arcadia: a place where money is no object, where all the world is the topmost Society, and where the servant class knows its place. Perhaps because this flawless corner of Victoria’s England is so very unlike what we know of it from Dickens and Mayhew, George Eliot and Mrs Gaskell, it seems rather an unreal landscape ... ”
