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Madresfield - One house, one family, one thousand years (Paperback)
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Madresfield - One house, one family, one thousand years (Paperback)
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List price R590
Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
You Save R64 (11%)
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Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the
Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and
lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the
Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's hands to
this day. Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor
house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the
threadbare. The house and the family were the real inspiration for
Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based
his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons. Never
before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung
open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets.
And so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in
parallel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from
the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot;
through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens'
Bleak House; to the secret love behind Elgar's Enigma Variations;
and the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th
Earl.
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