Life in the English country house
Subtitle: a social and architectural history
By: Mark Girouard.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Upper class -- Great Britain -- History; Country homes -- Great Britain -- History; Country life -- Great Britain -- History; Architecture and society -- Great Britain -- History; Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain; Manors -- Great Britain -- History; England -- Social life and customs
Description: From literature, social chronicles, and family documents comes a study of the evolution and social role of the English country house since the Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.