Mistress of the House
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: July 10, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780304364022
Subjects: History
First sentence: In the eighteenth century Britain was run by its landowners, for whom the acquisition of estates was a bid for power rather than for privacy.