Brideshead Revered
David Cannadine, 17 March 1983
The Country House
by James Lees-Milne.
Oxford, 110 pp., £4.50, November 1982,0 19 214139 2 Show More
by James Lees-Milne.
Oxford, 110 pp., £4.50, November 1982,
English Country Houses and Landed Estates
by Heather Clemenson.
Croom Helm, 244 pp., £15.95, July 1982,0 85664 987 2 Show More
by Heather Clemenson.
Croom Helm, 244 pp., £15.95, July 1982,
“... is against this background – which might usefully have been filled in more thoroughly – that Clive Aslet sets his tastefully-written and beautifully-produced account of country houses built in England between 1890 and 1939: the final flowering of this ostensibly and intermittently arcadian way of life before the Second World War, the demise of ... ”