Inheritance
Subtitle: the story of Knole and the Sackvilles
By: by Robert Sackville-West
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781408803387
Subjects: History; Aristocracy (Social class); Biography; Knole House (Sevenoakes, England)
Description: A fascinating memoir of an extraordinary family told through the vast, four-hundred-year-old house, Knole. Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirten generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.