Editing Kenilworth Castle (section)

===18th and 19th centuries===
[[File:JMW Turner Kenilworth Castle 1830.jpg|thumb|''Kenilworth Castle'' by [[J. M. W. Turner]], {{circa|1830}}|209x209px]]
[[File:Kenilworth Castle by George Willis Pryce.png|thumb|''Kenilworth Castle'' by [[George Willis-Pryce]], {{Circa|1890}}|208x208px]]
Kenilworth remained a ruin during the 18th and 19th centuries, still used as a farm but increasingly also popular as a tourist attraction. The first guidebook to the castle, ''A Concise history and description of Kenilworth Castle'', was printed in 1777 with many later editions following in the coming decades.<ref name="Morris 2010, p.51."/><ref group=lower-alpha>See Sharpe, 1825 for the 25th edition of the original guidebook.</ref>
The castle's cultural prominence increased after Sir [[Walter Scott]] wrote ''[[Kenilworth (novel)|Kenilworth]]'' in 1821, describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Very loosely based on the events of 1575, Scott's story reinvented aspects of the castle and its history to tell the story of "the pathetic, beautiful, undisciplined heroine [[Amy Robsart]] and the steely Elizabeth I".<ref>Shaw, p.177.</ref> Although considered today as a less successful literary novel than some of his other historical works, it popularised Kenilworth Castle in the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] imagination as a romantic Elizabethan location.<ref>Morris 2010, pp.51–2; Shaw, p.177.</ref> ''Kenilworth'' spawned "numerous stage adaptations and [[burlesque]]s, at least eleven operas, popular [[redaction]]s, and even a scene in a set of [[diorama]]s for home display", including Sir [[Arthur Sullivan]]'s 1865 [[cantata]] ''[[The Masque at Kenilworth]]''.<ref>Hackett, p.60.</ref> [[J. M. W. Turner]] painted several watercolours of the castle.<ref>''[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kenilworth-castle-from-the-south-west-r1148669 J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours]'', [[Tate]]. Retrieved 20 March 2016.</ref>
[[File:Kenilworth Castle by Francis Bedford.jpg|thumb|Francis Bedford (1816–1894), Kenilworth Castle, England, 1860s, albumen print, [https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections/features/caught-by-the-camera.html Department of Image Collections], National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC|209x209px]]
The number of visitors increased, including [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Charles Dickens]].<ref name="Morris 2010, p.52.">Morris 2010, p.52.</ref> Work was undertaken during the 19th century to protect the stonework from further decline, with particular efforts to remove [[ivy]] from the castle in the 1860s.<ref name="Morris 2010, p.52."/>