“In Emma, Jane Austen describes Donwell Abbey’s lime-tree-lined avenue that ended with a view of the meadows, farm, woods, house, and river as ‘a sweet view—sweet to the eye and the mind…English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.’ That such a landscape should come to embody England is partly due to Lancelot “Capability” Brown (1716–1783). “