Madresfield

Informationen zum Autor Jane Mulvagh read history at Cambridge and is the author of a biography of Vivienne Westwood. She lives in Yorkshire and London, and has been researching Madresfield for the last three years. Klappentext The story of Madresfield Court, a stately home in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire. It has been owned and lived in by the same family since the time of the Doomsday Book, and still remains in family hands today. It has recently opened its doors to the public, revealing not only the history of the family but the changing history of England itself. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Mulvagh, Mulvagh Jane
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2009
• EAN: 9780552772389
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77238-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Family history, tracing ancestors, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Family History & Genealogy