The conservatory in Victorian literature

• Autores: Michael R. Waters
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 2, Nº 3, 1982, págs. 273-284
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay addresses itself to the following question: how did Victorian writers of imaginative literature use and interpret that most enduring form of 19th-century garden architecture, the conservatory? I wish to make three main points. First, that the conservatory figures, sometimes significantly, in many works which treat of middle-and upper-class Victorian life. Second, that in these works the emphasis is upon the social and not simply upon the horticultural uses of the conservatory. And third, that the ways in which the conservatory is presented are selective but largely consistent.