All Around Is Fairy Ground

Name: All Around Is Fairy Ground
Brand: Reaktion Books
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Pleasure and the Regency Garden

By: Timothy Mowl

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Hardcover | 4 November 2026

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Hardcover

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25.0 x 19.0

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Regency gardens dazzled with colour, invention and theatricality: trellises heavy with roses and jasmine, shrubberies designed for intrigue and lawns enlivened with pools, grottoes and fanciful ornaments. Yet behind this world of perfume and spectacle lay a striking social shift. In a domain long defined by men, women began to play an active role, influencing Humphry Repton and other designers to realize their visions of pleasure grounds. These gardens became stages for al fresco entertainments, displays of taste and private encounters alike. This book offers the first sustained account of ornamental gardening in Regency Britain, revealing a vivid, feminine-inflected landscape where horticulture, fashion and sociability intertwined - and where artistry still resonates two centuries later.

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