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Clare Hickman, The Picturesque at Brislington House, Bristol: The Role of Landscape in Relation to the Treatment of Mental Illness in the Early Nineteenth-Century Asylum, Garden History, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Summer, 2005), pp. 47-60
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