Description
Illustrations:
Chris Broughton (plus Cover, left), Howard Eaglestone, Ian Gardner, Andrew Griffiths, Grahame Jones, Jon Langford, Mark Stewart, Andrew Townsend, Corinne Roberts.
Texts:
~ Patrick Eyres. Introduction.
~ Michael Charlesworth. Elevation and Succession: the representation of Jacobite and Hanoverian politics in the landscape gardens of Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse.
~ Michael Charlesworth. The Garden of the Lost Lover: a fantasy garden containing a compendium of Jacobite symbols.
~ Patrick Eyres. A Patriotic Landscape: Wentworth Woodhouse, landscape of Patriotic Opposition and Patriotic Husbandry (Whig politics, the Agricultural Revolution, coalmining and planned housing for the estate’s miners).
~ Wendy Frith. Sex, Smallpox and Seraglios: a cultural and historical discourse generated by the Sun Monument at Wentworth Castle (erected during the 1740s and dedicated to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who had challenged the male medical establishment through her introduction of inoculation against smallpox into England from Turkey).