The gentry
Subtitle: stories of the English
By: Adam Nicolson
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes; Clipper Large Print
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rearsby [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9781407496832
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Gentry; History; Landowners; Genealogy
Description: It is the gentry that have made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. England was a country dominated by its middling families, rooted on their land, in their locality, with a healthy interest in turning a profit from their property and a deep distrust of the centralised state. This riveting new book concentrates on fourteen families with a time-span from 1400 to the present day; The Gentry presents a convincing argument on what has created the distinctive English character but with the sheer readability ofan epic novel.
Notes: Originally published : London : HarperPress, 2011.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ungently gentles; title: Part I: Inherited world 1410-1520 (1410s-1520s: Survival: the Plumptons, Plumpton, Yorkshire); title: Part II: In the Renaissance state 1520-1610 (1520s-1580s: Discretion : the Throckmortons, Coughton, Warwickshire ; 1580s-1610s: Control : the Thynnes, Oxford, Beaconsfield, Wiltshire, Shropshire and London); title: Part III: The great century 1610-1710 (1610s-1650s: Steadiness: the Oglanders, Nunwell, Isle of Wight ; 1630s-1660s: Withdrawal: the Oxindens, Denton, Kent ; 1660s-1710s: Honour: the le Neves, Great Witchingham, Norfolk); title: Part IV: Atlantic domains 1710-1790 (1710s-1750s: Dominance: the Lascelles, Yorkshire, Barbados, Richmond and London ; 1730s-1790s: Courage : the Pinckneys, Wappoo and Charleston, South Carolina, and Richmond, Surrey); title: Part V: The failing vision: 1790-1910 (1790s-1840s: Fecklessness : the Capels, London, Brussels and Lausanne ; 1780s-1915: Fantasy: the Hugheses, Kinmel, Denbighshire and Grosvenor Square, London); title: Part VI: The after-life 1910-2010 (1890s-1950s: Renunciation: the Aclands, Killerton, Devon and Holnicote, Somerset ; 1950s-2010s: Continuity : the Cliffords, Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire); title: Conclusion: Return of the native.