Staff Lead researchers Professor Stephen Bending Head of Department – English Research interests Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Garden History and Landscape Studies Connect with Stephen Email: S.D.Bending@soton.ac.uk Research outputs Green Retreats. Women, gardens and eighteenth-century culture Stephen Bending, 2013 Type: book Melancholy amusements: women, gardens, and the depression of spirits S.D. Bending, 2011, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 44(2), 41-62 DOI: 10.1353/sli.2011.0013 Type: article