The London Town Garden, 1700–1840

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A book review of Todd Longstaffe-Gowan's The London Town Garden discusses the volume's treatment of small metropolitan gardens in London between 1700 and 1840 as physical, convivial, and symbolic spaces. The reviewer notes the author's claim that the town garden was a personal, idiosyncratic mode of expression rather than a display of fashionable taste, evolving slowly and independently well behind landscape improvements in the English countryside, while pointing out that questions of taste in relation to class and consumption are only partly addressed in the book.