Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• FOREWORD
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION by Christopher Hussey
• I. NORTHUMBERLAND BACKGROUND AND EARLY DAYS
• Brown's family and early life
• Garden design in the early eighteenth century
• Employment at Kirkharle
• Benwell Tower
• Decision to move to the South
• II. STOWE: A STEPING STONE TO SUCCESS
• Southern Beginnings
• Kiddington
• Stowe
• Finmere
• Wakefield
• Newnham Paddox
• Packington
• Charlecote
• Croome
• Warwick
• Marriage
• III. PROSPECTS AND CAPABILITIES
• The move to Hammersmith
• Petworth
• Kirtlington
• Moor Park
• Beechwood
• More work at Newnham Paddox
• Belhus
• Burghley
• Madingley
• Wrest
• Garrick's Villa at Hampton
• IV. WEST COUNTRY COMMISSIONS
• Longleat
• Corsham
• Bowood
• Wycombe Abbey
• Tottenham Park
• Charlton
• Sharpham
• Widdicombe
• Mamhead
• Ugbrooke
• Wardour
• V. GROWING PRACTICE
• The Hollands of Fulham
• Lance goes to Eton
• Ashridge
• Syon and Alnwick
• Chatsworth
• Aynho
• Castle Ashby
• Acquisition of the Manor of Fenstanton
• VI. MAINLY EATS ANGLIA
• Holkham
• Kimberoley
• Melton Constable
• Redgrave
• Audley End
• Branches
• Lowther
• Temple Newsam
• Hills
• Milton Abbey and village
• VII. THE ROYAL APPOINTMENT: RICHMOND AND HAMPTON COURT
• Royal Appointment
• New need for assistants
• Michael Milliken, John Spyers and Samuel Lapidege taken on
• VIII. THE CREST OF THE WAVE
• Blenheim and Langley
• Caversham
• Luton Hoo
• Dodington
• Wimbledon
• Burton Pynsent
• Wallington and Rothley
• Broadlands
• Sandbeck and Roche Abbey
• Wimpole
• Compton Verney
• The beginning of Claremont
• Henry Holland taken into collaboration
• IX. MIDLAND COMMISSIONS
• A Staffordshire Group
• Ingestre
• Swinnerton
• Chillington
• Tong Castle
• Weston
• Trentham
• Fisherwick
• Tixall
• Himley
• X. LITERARY UNDERCURRENTS
• Walpole and Whately publish their books on gardening
• Brown's appointment as High Sheriff of Huntingdonshire
• Mr Nicolay's miniature garden at Richmond
• Rycote
• Highclere
• Brocklesby
• Grimsthorpe
• Ancaster House, Richmond
• XI. DETRACTORS AND CHAMPIONS
• Sir William Chamber's attack in the Dissertation
• William Mason's defence in the Heroic Epistle
• Other critics and supporters
• The completion of Claremont
• Marriage of Bridget Brown and Henry Holland
• Mount Clare
• Benham and Combe Abbey
• Cambridge friends
• The Wilderness at St. John's College
• Oakley Park
• Further designs for Burton Constable
• Scampston
• Lance's first step towards a politcal career
• XII. SEASIDE VILLAS AND WELSH CASTLES
• Cadland
• Highcliffe
• 73, South Audley Street
• Cardiff Castle
• Newton
• A design for the Backs at Cambridge
• Taplow and Clivedon
• Wynnstay
• XIII. WHIGS AND TORIES
• Friendship and correspondence with Lord Chatham
• Political negotiations
• John Brown's naval exploits
• Berrington
• Nuneham Courtenay
• XIV. THE GENIUS AND THE BLUE STOCKING
• Sandleford Priory
• Heveningham
• Ickworth
• Fornham
• North Cray
• Addington
• Stanstead
• Woodchester
• Llewaney
• 'Stourton'
• Margaret Brown's broken engagement
• XV. 'DAME NATURE'S SECOND HUSBAND'
• A visit to Euston Hall
• Conservation with Hannah More
• Browns' sudden death
• Appreciations
• Bequests to family and friends
• XVI. CONCLUSION, BROWN'S PRINCIPLES: INFLUENCES AND INTERPRESTATIONS
• LIST OF WORK KNOWN TO BE BY, OR ATTRIBUTED TO, CAPABILITY BROWN
• BIBILIOGRAPHY
• INDEX