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Hidden Patrons: ‘We need more of these stories to be told’
Eleanor Jolliffe discovers how a generation of Georgian women pioneers acted as both patrons and architects
Amy Boyington’s Hidden Patrons is a history of architectural practice hidden in plain sight. Her eminently readable book tells the story of the female architectural patrons of Georgian Britain. It doesn’t take many pages though to see that many of these women were clients in name only. Many used the social acceptability of architecture as an artistic interest as an excuse to practise architecture - to be an architect - in all but name.
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