Jane Brown is the author of seventeen books on varied subjects, including Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, Henrietta Luxborough and Lancelot ¿Capability¿ Brown, and the critically-acclaimed classic Gardens of a Golden Afternoon. All of her earlier books inform Dorothy. Jane has lectured in the UK and in America and enjoyed a Harvard fellowship for her biography of the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (1995). She has also curated exhibitions and written garden histories for three Cambridge colleges.