Benjamin Disraeli
Birth date: December 21, 1804
Died: April 19, 1881
Benjamin Disraeli's Books
Verbose, preachy, sentimental. Hmmm... Victorian?
A delightful picture of gardenesque planting can be found in Disraeli's high-flown romantic novel, Lothair; written in 1870, it describes a park planted in about 1800 with all the trees as specimens, no longer in the belts and clumps of Capability Brown.Page 66 The Pleasure Garden An Illustrated His...
[These notes were made in 1985. I read the New York: Cambridge Society, 1905 edition]. I bought this for the pretty cover, and read it because it was there. A curiosity in several ways: it's a subscription edition (a book club?) It has a "critical introduction" by Edmund Gosse which doesn't even m...
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