The Garden in Victorian Literature

aesthetic Alfred Austin associated beauty beds Brontë century Chapter characters colour conservatory contemporary contrast cottage garden country house countryside cultivated cultural Dickens Dickens's Disraeli Disraeli's domestic Elizabeth Gaskell England English example experience favoured fictional gardens floral flower-garden formal garden design garden scenes garden writers Gardener's George Eliot George Meredith Gissing Gissing's green Hardy Helstone Henrietta Temple Hesperides horticultural human ideal imaginative writers Lady landscape language of flowers lawn Little Dorrit London Lothair Magazine medieval Morris narrator nature novel old garden old-fashioned gardens Oxford Univ park pastoral picturesque plants poem poetic poetry poets Quoted readers romantic roses rural Ruskin scenery scent shrubbery significance social suburban suburbs suggest symbol taste Tennyson terrace things trees trim Trollope Trollope's urban Victorian fiction Victorian garden Victorian imaginative literature Victorian literature Victorian novelists visual wild wildscape Wilkie Collins William William Morris women Wuthering Heights