PrefaceAcknowledgementsIllustration CreditsList of
IllustrationsList of Abbreviations
Introduction: In search of East London’s Lost Palace
Part One: Sir Josiah Child, ‘The Albion Croesus’ (1673-99)Chapter
One: Establishing a mercantile estate in the late 17th century
Part Two: Richard Child, Viscount Castlemaine and 1st Earl Tylney
(1704-50)Chapter Two: Richard Child and the early Wanstead
landscape: ‘the noblest Gardens now in the Kingdom.’
(1704-13)Chapter Three: Colen Campbell and the rebuilding of
Wanstead House (1713-17)Chapter Four: The Interiors of Wanstead
House (1720-50)Chapter Five : The Artinatural Landscape
(1725-50)
Part Three: John Child, 2nd Earl Tylney (1750-85)Chapter Six: John
Child and the late 18th-century landscape Chapter Seven: ‘A bird of
passage’: John Child’s Italian sojourns
Part Four: Catherine Tylney Long (1805-25)Chapter Eight: ‘The
richest heiress of the British Dominions’Chapter Nine: The Pole
Tylney Long Wellesleys at Wanstead: A Regency revival
(1812-22)Chapter Ten: The Great Sales of Wanstead House
(1822-24)Chapter Eleven: Return from exile
EpilogueAppendixIndex
Hannah Armstrong completed her PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, having previously studied at the University of Glasgow, where she graduated with a Masters with Distinction in Decorative Arts and Design History. In 2012, Hannah Armstrong was awarded the Anne Christopherson Fellowship at the British Museum's Prints and Drawings department. She lives in South West London.
‘Wanstead House is lost but not forgotten and has always been acknowledged as one of the most important examples of English domestic architecture of its time… Hannah Armstrong gathers all this information, adds her own research, and uses it to illuminate the history of the lost palace and its gardens in a single well-produced volume which will appeal to a wide audience.’ Sally Jeffery, Garden History
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