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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