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==Biography==
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|author=Jane Brown
|title=Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician 1716-1783
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Among those who helped their contemporaries living through the Age of Enlightenment to see the world around them in a different light, Brown was unquestionably one of the most influential. Having trained as a gardener, as a young man he acquired an exhaustive knowledge of plants and trees, as well as of drainage and water management. To this was added a rare ability to look at the dullest of gardens and landscapes, decide that they had 'capabilities' for improvement (hence the time-honoured epithet), and persuade the owner that a transformation was both possible and desirable.
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{{newreview
|author=Johanna Adorjan
