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The English Pleasure Garden 1660-1860
by
Sarah Jane
Downing |
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ISBN Number:
9780747806998
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 56
Publication Date: March 2009
Publisher: Shire Publications |
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. In Bath,
Sydney Gardens is the only English pleasure garden that has not
since been closed and built over. 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. |
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