William Shenstone
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William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
Portrait by Edward Alcock, 1760
The view from the ruined Halesowen Priory towards The Leasowes (on the crest of the hill on the right).
Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough, was an English poet and letter writer, now mainly remembered as a gardener. She married the rising politician Robert Knight in 1727, but he banished her to his e
William Shenstone
…appeared after Dodsley's death. Other letters of Shenstone's are included in Select Letters (ed. Thomas Hill 1778). The letters of Lady Luxborough (née Henrietta St John) to Shenstone were printed by T. Dodsley in 1775; much additional correspondence is preserved in the British Museum letters to Lady Luxborough (Add…
Portrait of Lady Luxborough by Maria Verelst
Her mother, née Angelica Pelissary or Pillesary