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Marble Hill has been revived and is open now for free for all. To celebrate this transformation Dr Tessa Kilgarriff tells the story of Henrietta Howard who created Marble Hill as a woman’s home for a woman, by a woman. Dr Tessa talks about the original collection and the most recent revival project.

Dr Tessa Kilgarriff is Curator of Collections and Interiors at English Heritage with responsibility for two 18th-century villas, Chiswick House and Marble Hill House. A specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British art, she received her PhD from the University of Bristol. Prior to joining English Heritage, she was Assistant Curator at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village in Compton, Surrey and has previously completed curatorial projects at the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.