Madresfield

Product Details

Author : Jane Mulvagh
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780385607728
Number of Pages : 400
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2008-06-02
Publisher : Doubleday

ASIN : 0385607725

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Madresfield (2008-07-04)

Jane Mulvagh's book should be called The Lygons to be more accurate. She offers only tantalising glimpses into the house itself, using suspiciously round dimensions to describe the rooms, an implausibly high drawing room ceiling and throws away a comment about 60 bedrooms in her descriptions. If you are looking for a history of Madresfield you'd be better to read 'The Last Country Houses' or the Country Life articles, the latter of which don't make a mention in her bibliography. Her links from the brief descriptions of the house to the various family members are facile and 2 dimensional. However as a history of the Lygon's the book is very good. It makes fascinating reading, particularly on the 20th century Lygons and offers glimpses to a very different way of life that was broken apart by scandal. The Brideshead Revisited inspiration seem undeniable and offers a realistic basis to a 20th century classic.All in all a good book, but misleadingly titled.

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