Table of Contents

Introduction: Elysian Fields /Origins /Creating the Garden Cemetery /John Claudius Loudon /The Great Garden of Death, 1850–1901 /Paradise Preserved? The Cemeteries Today /Further Reading /Places to Visit /Index

Promotional Information

The Victorian cult of the dead is one of the most fascinating aspects of our social history, and the cemetery is the most obvious expression of this obsession. This beautifully illustrated book traces the history of these remarkable landscaped spaces.

About the Author

Sarah Rutherford is a Kew-trained gardener with an MA in the conservation of historic parks and gardens from York University. She worked for English Heritage assessing sites across England for the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, becoming Head of the Register. During this time she researched and completed her doctoral thesis on the landscapes of nineteenth-century lunatic asylums. She is now an enthusiastic freelance consultant researching and writing conservation plans for parks and gardens. She lives in Buckinghamshire.