Philippa Tristram most recent book, Living Space, is discussed by Peter Campbell in this issue. She is a senior lecturer in English at the University of York.
The Picturesque, with its cottages ornées and simulations of Tuscan rusticity, is hard to take seriously. Yet it accompanied a radical change in English architectural thinking. This happens...
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