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,
“... landed establishment was increasingly forced on the defensive. Such, at least, is the argument of Heather Clemenson’s admirable study of 500 English landed estates during the last 100 years. The late 19th century, she suggests, was an especially trying time for landowners, as their political power, landed wealth and social status were undermined by the ... ”