This is an account of the lives of the families and the servants of the British country house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering history based on contemporary records, diaries, private and public autobiographies, and on the childhood recollections of living descendants.
Format: Pop up
Pages: 388
Edition: 1
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 29 Aug 1994
ISBN 10: 063115566X
ISBN 13: 9780631155669