What about the women of Stowe? Throwing light on Stowe’s eighteenth-century chatelaines

Join us as last year's winner of the George Clark Prize, Dr Amy Boyington, presents her fascinating research on the Women at Stowe.

Stowe House has long been celebrated for its pioneering gardens and its remarkable house, but it has been made even more famous by the illustrious names attached to it. The patrons and architects that created Stowe, such as Viscount Cobham, Earl Temple, Sir John Vanbrugh, William Kent, James Gibbs, Charles Bridgeman, and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, have all added to the lustre of this amazing country house. But what about the women?

There are several influential women associated with eighteenth-century Stowe whose stories have long been overshadowed by their male relatives. Here all about them in this lecture as Amy reveals their pasts.