King Alfred’s Castle: Or, How to Memorialise the Yorkshire Petition of 1769

King Alfred’s Castle, constructed for the Yorkshire merchant Jeremiah Dixon in the summer of 1769, is an important example of the politicisation of the landscape in a contested decade. This is the first detailed study of the Gothic folly, which situates this mercantile intervention into landscape ga...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, O
Format: Journal article
Published: New Arcadian Press 2013