"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian

Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the possibilities for travelling within Britain became increasingly various owing to improved tra

George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy postmaster general of British North America