tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post8395491822394600449..comments2024-02-18T22:40:55.084-05:00Comments on Jane Austen Today: Visiting Great Houses During Jane Austen's TimeVichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13668098318085667188noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-51644247975171288792007-06-25T04:51:00.000-04:002007-06-25T04:51:00.000-04:00Nice post, Ms. Place! Reminded me of my hope to go...Nice post, Ms. Place! Reminded me of my hope to go to England and visit the great houses of the 18th and 19th century... It's such a fun to read about them. No great houses in 'Becoming Jane', though, but that doesn't stop me from finding more info on Basingstoke Assembly Rooms etc, and hope I can post it soon.Ichahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11201156394951497511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-29915976780957843382007-06-24T20:15:00.000-04:002007-06-24T20:15:00.000-04:00Oh, James, thank you so much. I adore follies for ...Oh, James, thank you so much. I adore follies for their whimsy and for their name alone. When my friend and I visited Versailles last fall, we fell in love with Marie Antoinette's Jardin Anglois. She had ordered a series of follies to be erected, including an entire whimsical village (petit hameux) based on the paintings of Hubert Robert and designed by Richard Mique. I spent the most magical twoVichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13668098318085667188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-25444200415452509872007-06-24T18:31:00.000-04:002007-06-24T18:31:00.000-04:00Ah, here are the quotes I was looking for: “When g...Ah, here are the quotes I was looking for: <BR/><BR/><BR/>“When gardens were first made to beguile, so was the architecture they contained”<BR/><BR/>The styles of garden buildings were contemporary: Renaissance, Baroque, Palladian, Chines, Gothick, Indian and a host of weird absurdities, conjured up to enliven the uneventful afternoon of the English 18thcentury – but all this can be discounted asAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-88268302086355733452007-06-24T08:27:00.000-04:002007-06-24T08:27:00.000-04:00Nice garden post. Stowe was one of the most famous...Nice garden post. <BR/>Stowe was one of the most famous landscapes to visit in the nineteenth century, I believe...(still incredible but the number of visits have dropped considerably)<BR/><BR/>I'm hoping to post something on follies, garden buildings and pleasure gardens soon. Garden Buildings, often (and rightly) considered architectural follies were good for architecture because they allowed Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com