Country House
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Event | Jane Austen talk at Bowood, 20th & 21st September 2025
I am thrilled to invite you to come and join me for a talk about Jane Austen and women’s lives in Georgian England at Bowood House and Gardens, Wiltshire. Jane Austen’s insights into the lives of women in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are absolutely fascinating. In all honesty, my love for this read more
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A Classical Landscape at Stourhead
Visiting the gardens at the sprawling estate of Stourhead, Wiltshire, is like walking into a Claude Lorrain painting, or some kind of fantastical neoclassical, Grand Tour dream. In fact, Henry Hoare I, who first acquired the Stourhead estate for his family in 1717 (then known as Stourton Manor) owned a Lorrain painting, Aeneas at Delos. read more
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Middleton Hall and Jane Austen
It’s always nice to discover a connection (albeit a little tenuous!) between your favourite author and your hometown. Today I want to share with you the story of Middleton Hall, just outside of Tamworth, Staffordshire, and it’s fascinating seventeenth- and eighteenth-century owners, who were related to one Miss Jane Austen… In the beginning… The land read more
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My 6 Favourite Jane Austen Filming Locations
Today is Jane Austen’s birthday! The author was born on this day, December 16th, in the year 1775 at Steventon in Hampshire. As you might have guessed, I wanted to write something to celebrate her birthday on my blog, so I decided to share with you some of my favourite historic properties that have been read more
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Mini-Post | Waddesdon Manor
Forever one of the country houses I’m most interested in, welcome to Waddesdon Manor, a French château in Buckinghamshire. Waddesdon was built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and completed in 1883 – he wanted somewhere to escape from London to. (Very nice if you can!) As you may guess from the style, the architect was read more
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Mini-Post | Wightwick Manor
“The conditions of art should be simple. A great deal more depends upon the heart than upon the head. Appreciation of art is not secured by any elaborate scheme of learning. Art requires a good healthy atmosphere.” Oscar Wilde, “The House Beautiful” Lecture, 1882 Theodore and Flora Mander subscribed to Wilde’s ideas in this lecture, read more
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Mini-Post | The Hill Garden and Pergola
Welcome to a little corner of Hampstead, where you will find the most perfect “The Secret Garden” vibes… The Pergola at Hill Garden was originally built in the early twentieth century for Lord Leverhulme by Thomas Mawson. Funnily enough, at the same time the Pergola was being built, the Northern underground line was being extended read more
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Mini-Post | Bridgerton and Petworth House
A mini-peek into one of the Bridgerton filming locations for season 2. read more
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Visiting Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
Join me for a brief jaunt through the whirlwind history of Baddesley Clinton manor house, one of my favourite National Trust properties. read more
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Visiting Marble House, Newport
Let’s continue to visit the Newport Mansions, Rhode Island with this post exploring Marble House. read more
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Dr. Lizzie Rogers 