Sarah Rutherford is een expert op het gebied van de instandhouding van historische parken en tuinen. Ze was hoofd van het Register voor Historische Parken en Tuinen van English Heritage en werkt nu als freelance consultant, waarbij ze instandhoudingsplannen opstelt.
Planned with the same passion as a landscape garden, filled with monuments that represented the start of the art of craftsmanship in stone, and equipped with expensively constructed and fashionably designed gatehouses and chapels of rest, the Victorian cemetery was a matter of real civic pride. This illustrated study tells its fascinating story.
Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and their own influence, in fact there were only ever two true garden cities in England. This book offers a guide to the movement and to the communities which are its legacy.