Life in an eighteenth century country house : letters from the Grove

著者

• Hammond, P. W.
• Hammond, Carolyn

書誌事項

Life in an eighteenth century country house : letters from the Grove

Peter & Carolyn Hammond

Amberley, 2012

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Grove House and its extensive estate in Chiswick were owned in the eighteenth century by Humphrey Morice, a not very successful politician and an animal lover. The story of the house has been reconstructed by Carolyn and Peter Hammond who have studied the country home for almost a decade. A wealth of period detail comes from the rare survival of letters written by the head groom to the lord of the house while he was in Italy for his health. They are a window into the daily life on the estate, describing the rather turbulent relationships between the servants in the house and the sometimes exciting events from the outside world. There was an attempted armed robbery, the theft of the walnut crop and the arrival of the Poor Law officers from a neighbouring parish to attempt to force one of the stable lads to pay for an illegitimate child he had apparently fathered... Here is real life in the country house during the period of English history, immortalized by the fiction of Jane Austen.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB14800232
• ISBN:
  • 9781445608655
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Stroud
• ページ数/冊数: 158 p., [8] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 942.182
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Chiswick (London, England) -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Chiswick (London, England) -- Buildings, structures, etc