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Madresfield by Jane Mulvagh (Hardcover, 2008)
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Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home surrounded by a perfect medieval moat, 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 heraldic and feudal rest easily next to the prosaically domestic. 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 ofProduct Identifiers
PublisherTransWorld LTD
ISBN-139780385607728
eBay Product ID (ePID)89015522
Product Key Features
Book TitleMadresfield
AuthorJane Mulvagh
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicLocal History
Publication Year2008
Number of Pages400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height231mm
Item Width158mm
Item Weight768g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJane Mulvagh
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 08 Nov, 2022
A good read
A fascinating history of Madresfield House, the people who lived there and those whose stories overlapped with those of the occupants of the house over a millennium. Easy to read and, having understood the story, well worth rereading in future. I have since bought a copy of Brideshead revisited as so much of the novel is related to the Lygons of Madresfield.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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