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Madresfield. One house, one family, one thousand years

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#265886
Titel	Madresfield. One house, one family, one thousand years
Auteur	Mulvagh, Jane
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Black Swan
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	0552772380
ISBN13	9780552772389
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's hands to this day. Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the threadbare. The house and the family were the real inspiration for Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons. Never before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets. And so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in paral... (Lees verder)lel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot; through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens' Bleak House; to the secret love behind Elgar's Enigma Variations; and the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th Earl.
Pagina's	496
Conditie	Goed — Name and address-sticker on verso front cover.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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