Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were renowned for their beauty and reflected the aspirations of their owners, who sought success at Court and delighted the Queen. Jane Whitaker's book explores these gardens, recreating their lost splendor and revealing the rich and Renaissance culture that underlay them. It provides an entertaining and informative study of one of the most interesting periods of garden history.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age, complementing the great houses of the day and reflecting the aspirations of their owners, who sought success at Court and delighted the Queen. No leading courtier would be without his great house, and no great house was complete without its garden. In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whitaker explores these gems of Elizabethan England, focusing on the gardens of the Queen and her leading courtiers. Drawing on the cultural and horticultural sources of the day, as well as evidence surviving on the ground, she recreates these lost gardens, revealing both the rich and Renaissance culture that underlay them and the sumptuous world of the Elizabethan aristocracy. The result is an evocation of one of the most opulent reigns in English history and an entertaining and informative study of one of the most interesting periods of garden history.

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 149 x 222 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788311199