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Dr Amy Boyington is author of Hidden Patrons: Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain (Bloomsbury Visual Arts) and is a social and architectural historian. She is a trustee of the Georgian Group and popular Instagram and TikTok historian.
A sumptuous visual feast combined with deep archival research. With authority and flair, Amy Boyington shows that women have been hiding in plain sight all along in the story of how glamorous Georgian architecture got made. * Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, and author of Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman and Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court * A must read for anyone interested in women’s place in the past. * Janina Ramirez , University of Oxford, and author of Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It * Hidden Patrons is a complete revelation . . . a scholarly, yet engagingly-written study which celebrates the considerable contribution of aristocratic women to the architecture of country houses, villas, town houses and garden buildings in the eighteenth century. Everyone with an interest in Georgian architectures and interiors should read this book. * Jeremy Musson, University of Cambridge, and author of English Country House Interiors *
