Stephen Bending: Pleasure Gardens in the Long Eighteenth Century
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2020-05-31

In this interview, Professor Stephen Bending talks to Postdoctoral Fellow Kim Simpson about his current research on pleasure gardens in the long eighteenth century.

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Kim Simpson
Dr Kim Simpson is the Chawton House Postdoctoral Fellow, and also lectures in eighteenth-century literature at the University of Southampton.

Stephen Bending
Professor Stephen Bending lectures on eighteenth-century literature at the University of Southampton, and has written broadly on gardens, including Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture (2013), and an edited collection, A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment (2015). He is currently working on a new book: Pleasure Gardens and the Problems of Pleasure in Britain, France and North America, 1650-1830.

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