Guest blogging for the Golden Age of the Garden
I have had the pleasure of writing a number of guest blogs to coincide with the publication of The Golden Age of the Garden, a sort of mini blog tour, and I thought I should share the results here.
First stop was with the lovely Sarah Murden and Joanne Major, authors of A Right Royal Scandal: Two Marriages That Changed History, and An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott . Sarah and Jo host All Things Georgian, a great blog which regularly shares some brilliant content on, you guessed it, the Georgian era. For them I wrote a blog post ‘A Tour Through Some Georgian Gardens of Note‘ which collected together some of the lovely contemporary extracts I found while researching The Golden Age of the Garden, describing some of the most prominent English landscape gardens, such as at Chatsworth, Painshill and The Leasowes.
Blenheim by Nicolas Vergnaud from A new and accurate plan of Blenheim Palace, Gardens, Park, Plantations, &, the Seat of His Grace, the Duke of Marlborough (1835)
My next stop was with the brilliant Catherine Curzon aka Madame Gilflurt. Catherine is a historian and writer who has written a number of books both fiction and non-fiction, her most recent being Kings of Georgian Britain. For Catherine I wrote a post on The Essentials of Georgian Landscape Gardening, summing up some of the key aspects of the landscape design movement.
Enter a captionThe Leasowes: “The Leasowes, Shropshire” copper engraved print published in The Beauties of England and Wales, 1811
And finally I had the pleasure of visiting the blog of historical writer, Geri Walton, whose latest book is Marie Antoinette’s Confidante. In this blog post I discussed The International Response to the English Landscape Garden, considering the movement’s impact on luminaries of the time, such as Catherine the Great and Rousseau.
Catherine II of Russia by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder. Kunsthistorisches Museum
It has been lovely to share my blogs with a wider audience and I hope it has been a good way to reach new readers.