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The Victorians went mad for ferns
Why the Victorians lost their heads over ferns, and what a fern hunt really meant for a woman in 1855: the place-story behind Glorious Gardens, England.
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Why the Victorians lost their heads over ferns, and what a fern hunt really meant for a woman in 1855: the place-story behind Glorious Gardens, England.
Vita Sackville-West lost Knole to an accident of birth, built Sissinghurst instead, and Virginia Woolf gave her the house back in a novel called Orlando.