Life in the English Country House - A Social and Architectural History

Renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classes - their public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes. A survey of country houses through the past five centuries, from a broad range of materials: family archives, literature, plans and photographs. The book itself is a physical artifact of surpassing beauty which could fit on the grandest table in the houses it describes. This enthralling and immensely informative book.tells with wit, scholarship, and lucidity how the country house evolved to meet the needs and reflect the social attitudes of the times...