1700s, Regency and Victorian worldbuilding

[Teresa Edgerton]

And here is the promised list of books on earlier periods:


Resources for Worldbuilders 7th through 17th centuries

 

[Phyrebrat]

Thanks Teresa. It's a great help! (Altho' my TBR pile is becoming something of a cairn.)

pH

 

[pambaddeley]

And here is the promised list of books on early periods:

Resources for Worldbuilders 7th through 17th centuries

That's just taking me back to the main forum page; is there a problem?

 

[The Judge]

Lets see if this one works.

Resources for Worldbuilders 7th through 17th centuries

 

[pambaddeley]

That works fine thanks!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Maybe the link I posted got broken when Brian moved the thread. Although I don't think that's supposed to happen with the new software.

 

[Phyrebrat]

It worked when you posted it.

pH

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Worked for me early and now.

Thanks for the list

 

[The Judge]

It's the tercentenary of the birth of "Capability" Brown this year, with lots of associated talks and exhibitions here in the south of England both on him and his fellow landscape architects and on the Georgian landscape generally. I attended one yesterday given by a Dr Kate Feluś concerning landscape and leisure in the Georgian era, which was very interesting, and at which I made copious notes. She's just published a book on the subject (the book launch is actually today) so I snapped up a copy.

Its title is a bit daft -- The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden -- and though the many illustrations are wonderful in themselves, they're disappointingly reproduced, but it's an illuminating and entertaining read which throws light on how the upper and upper middle classes used and enjoyed their land. Although that might seem a narrow subject, it actually throws sidelights onto the age generally eg the house parties gathered to watch the locals haymaking, eg the three-hole privies in the gardens --- the kind of specific details which can bring a story to life.