‘Neither formal nor falsely adorned’: The Landscapes of Jane Austen – Monday 17 December 2018

Dr Alan Crosby, the celebrated local historian and lecturer, returns to speak to us about landscape design in the late Georgian and Regency periods.

He does so in the context of Jane Austen’s wonderful masterpieces of literature in which landscapes are rarely described so that when a picture of a scene is drawn we know that it has special significance. Jane lived at a time when fashions in landscape design were in the process of change, but with her instinctive conservatism she favoured the ‘traditional’ English styles of Capability Brown and his followers. In most of the novels we see clear links between the character of landscapes and the virtues and vices of the protagonists.

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