Annotated List of Works
Consulted Banks, Elizabeth. Creating
Period Gardens. Washington D.C.: The Preservation Press,
1991. A pictorial guidebook of period gardens in England
which included landscapes from Medieval to Edwardian times
and a directory containing the names original plants and the
modern counterparts. Beretta, Ilva. "The World's a
Garden". Stockholm: Uppsala University Press, 1993. The
relationship between the literary tradition and the English
Renaissance garden is studied in this doctoral
thesis. Dodd, A.H. Elizabethan
England. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1961. Professor
Dodd describes quotidian life in England during Queen
Elizabeth I's reign. Hobhouse, Penelope. Gardening
Through the Ages. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
The text reviews the history of plants and their influence
on garden styles from ancient Egypt through to the present
day. Hunt, John Dixon. Garden and
Grove. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. An
examination reflecting on the English transformation of the
Italian Renaissance garden. Lacey, Stephen. Gardens of the
National Trust. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1996. A
collection of pictures and descriptions of the gardens of
Britain's National Trust. McMurtry, Jo. Understanding
Shakespeare's England. Hamden: Archon Books, 1989. A
reference book providing a reader with the necessary
background of English life in the sixteenth
century. Strong, Roy. Renaissance
Garden in England. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979. A
definitive source on the subject. Text found in bibliography
of every other source consulted.
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