The English Pleasure Garden 1660–1860
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During their heyday in the mid-eighteenth century the pleasure gardens were one of the hubs of polite society.
Laid out with formal gardens and buildings for dining and amusement, the pleasure gardens were the scene of upper class exercise and entertainment. Most famous were Vauxhall Gardens, Cremorne Gardens and Ranelagh Gardens.
This book tells the story of the pleasure gardens, explaining their beginnings in the seventeenth century, their rising social importance, the variety of entertainment contained within, and their eventual decline into seedy hangouts for gamblers, thieves and prostitutes.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The First Gardens
Stolen Moments and Halcyon Days
Ranelagh: The Divinest Place Under Heaven
Marylebone and Vauxhall: The Later Years
Eighteenth-century Provincial Gardens
Nineteenth-century Provincial Gardens
The Victorian Pleasure Gardens
Arcadia Fallen
Index
The First Gardens
Stolen Moments and Halcyon Days
Ranelagh: The Divinest Place Under Heaven
Marylebone and Vauxhall: The Later Years
Eighteenth-century Provincial Gardens
Nineteenth-century Provincial Gardens
The Victorian Pleasure Gardens
Arcadia Fallen
Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Mar 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 64 |
| ISBN | 9780747806998 |
| Imprint | Shire Publications |
| Illustrations | 54 b/w; 50 col |
| Dimensions | 210 x 149 mm |
| Series | Shire Library |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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